Spam Kingpin gets time served

Hello folks,

While the podcast is out now, and show notes are up as well, I still want to write about the items I have and this one is talking about a Spam Kingpin that is getting off with time served.

The Gentleman is originally from St. Petersburgh, Russia. According to the article, he was a pivital person in the cybercrime industry, he was able to keep track of people and rent out his botnet for hundreds of dollars depending on the job you wanted.

Peter created some of the nastiest things out for its time including the storm worm, the Waledac botnet and the Kelihos botnet as well. Each of these are links within the article so you can learn about each of these.

He also ran affiliate programs which paid other cybercriminals as well.

According to the article, he’s got a family, and hopefully time served will be enough. Brian Krebs goes in to a lot more detail on everything, so if this interests you, than go and check out his article.

The article is titled Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served so go check it out.