Spyware authors offer financial rewards to botnet operators

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Spyware authors are now offering financial rewards to botnet operators and other cyber criminals who covertly install their spyware.

Selling "installs" is a common practice in the cyber-underworld, the most notable example was in 2005 when Jeanson Ancheta was arrested for building a 400,000-strong botnet and installing adware from 180 solutions for $60,000. But now the criminals have moved in a

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Source: Security Park
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