The U.S. is hoping to extradite Leni de Abreu Neto, a Brazilian man the U.S. claims tried to rent out a botnet that would be used to send spam.
InfoWorld reports that a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has indicted Neto on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to computers worldwide.
The FBI helped the Dutch High-Tech Crime Unit catch Neto in the Netherlands, along with Nordin Nasiri, and Nasiri’s 16-year-old brother. Nasiri used social engineering to create a botnet that consisted of some 100,000 hacked computers. Neto allegedly tried to rent it for 25,000 euros ($37,290).
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