译文：美国僵尸网络的黑客获刑四年
周三晚，在美国洛杉矶联邦法院一男子认罪后被判4年监禁，去年他让多达250000计算机感染并盗窃成千上万人的身份，劫持他们的银行帐户。
洛杉矶当局表示27岁的约翰Schiefer是全国第一被告认罪使用PDF格式连接僵尸网络窃听费用的人。
Schiefer网名为acidstorm，承认使用的是僵尸网络远程控制计算机，他在美国一旦被指控控制电脑将面临长达60年的徒刑。当局说，他使用.pdf格式的spybot蠕虫的恶意软件进行拦截计算机通讯，截取用户名和密码帐户，如：未经同意在paypal和购物数千美元。
当局说，在Mahalo被聘为Schiefer，他工作是3G Communications公司的信息安全顾问，贾森卡拉卡尼斯写道，该公司没有意识到，洛杉矶公司聘请男子就是认罪的黑客。
根据美国联邦调查局(FBI)调查，在起诉的8起事件中，严厉打击成功使用军方网络进行僵尸电脑，实施金融诈骗，使用洪水攻击网站和发送垃圾邮件的黑帽黑客，这些罪犯共造成2000多万美元的损失。
美国联邦调查局的八起案件被称为“特别行动二” 第二轮调查僵尸网路中最危险的威胁。第一轮调查在２００７年６月宣布,首次是FBI打击僵尸网络。
原文：
A Los Angeles man was sentenced late Wednesday in federal court to four years in prison after pleading guilty last year to infecting as many as 250,000 computers and stealing thousands of peoples' identities and hijacking their bank accounts.
The Los Angeles authorities said John Schiefer, 27, was the nation's first defendant to plead guilty to wiretapping charges (.pdf) in connection to using botnets.
Schiefer, who went by the online handle "acidstorm," faced as many as 60 years in prison and acknowledged using a botnet to remotely control computers across the United States. Once in control of the computers, the authorities said, (.pdf) his spybot malware allowed him to intercept computer communications. He mined usernames and passwords on accounts such as PayPal and made purchases totaling thousands of dollars without consent.
The authorities said he worked by day as an information security consultant with 3G Communications. After his guilty plea, Schiefer was hired at Mahalo, the so-called "human powered search engine." Its founder, Jason Calacanis wrote that the company failed to realize that the Los Angeles company had hired a man who had pleaded guilty to being a hacker.
Calacanis point out that Mahalo users' data was not breached by Schiefer.
Note to Mahalo Users: John’s work is well-supervised. Mahalo follows strict security policies and we don’t store any sensitive data anyway. (Even if one of our employees did go off the deep end, the most they would have access to would be your questions and answers on Mahalo Answers–not much damage can be done there since they’re all public anyway).
The defendant was among eight individuals indicted or successfully prosecuted in a crack down on black hat hackers who use armies of zombie computers to commit financial fraud, attack web sites with floods of traffic and send spam. The crimes at issue involved more than $20 million in losses, according to the FBI.
The FBI dubbed the eight cases "Operation Bot Roast II" -- the second round of its investigations against botnets, one of the most dangerous threats online today. The first FBI crackdown on botnets was announced in June, 2007.
黑客基地译自：http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/botnet-hacker-g.html
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