First published: 28th February 2007
Two Dutch men, aged 20 and 28, were handed jail sentences of 18 months and 2 years and fines for creating Trojans and using them to build a botnet. As they had both served jail time, they were released at the beginning of February; however, one of the men has appealed the sentence.
The two were key members of a gang that created and distributed the Toxbot and Wayphisher Trojans in 2005, infecting millions of computers, stealing login credentials for eBay and Paypal accounts, credit card details, and blackmailing companies with DoS attacks.
Other suspects in the case have yet to be tried.