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Russian spam mastermind jailed for creating botnet
Source: BBC
24 May 2012 Last updated at 12:41 GMT
Russian spam mastermind jailed for creating botnet
A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.
Russian hi-tech criminal Georgiy Avanesov was found guilty of computer sabotage by an Armenian court.
Mr Avanesov was tried and sentenced in Armenia, as he was arrested at the country's Yerevan airport in 2010.
The authorities closed in on Mr Avanesov after they took and dismantled the network of computers he controlled.
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Russian spam mastermind jailed for creating botnet
A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.
Russian hi-tech criminal Georgiy Avanesov was found guilty of computer sabotage by an Armenian court.
Mr Avanesov was tried and sentenced in Armenia, as he was arrested at the country's Yerevan airport in 2010.
The authorities closed in on Mr Avanesov after they took and dismantled the network of computers he controlled.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18189987
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