A Russian Cyber-crime mastermind Jailed !

A Russian cybercrime mastermind who was behind a group that hijacked 30 million computers around the world has been jailed.

Georgiy Avanesov was convicted of computer sabotage in an Armenian court and told to serve four years.
The court heard how Avanesov, aged in his 20s, carried out so-called denial-of-service attacks, which exploit security weaknesses in computers, and used a botnet – a network of compromised PCs – to target victims.
The Bredolab botnet, as it was known, sent out 3.6 billion junk emails every day at its height.
It also used servers in the Netherlands and was hired out to criminals who used it to obtain information such as bank passwords and carry out attacks on websites.
Avanesov was arrested at Armenia’s Yerevan airport in 2010 after the Dutch server network was dismantled.