Jeanson James Ancheta Explained

Jeanson James Ancheta
Birth Date:25 April 1985[1]
Conviction:Pleaded guilty to four felony charges
Conviction Penalty:5 years in prison

On May 9, 2006, Jeanson James Ancheta (born April 25, 1985) became the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets.[2] [3]

Biography

Ancheta was going to Downey High School in Downey, California until 2001 when he dropped out of school.[4] He later entered an alternative program for students with academic or behavioral problems.[4] He worked at an Internet cafe and according to his family wanted to join the military reserves. Around June 2004 he started to work with botnets after discovering rxbot, a common computer worm that could spread his net of infected computers.

Botnets

See main article: Botnet. Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or "bots", that run autonomously and automatically.

Arrest and sentence

In November 2005 he was captured in an elaborate sting operation when FBI agents lured him to their local office on the pretext of collecting computer equipment.[5] The arrest was part of the .[6]

On May 9, 2006 Ancheta pleaded guilty to four felony charges of violating United States Code Section 1030, Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers, specifically subsections (a)(5)(A)(i), 1030 (a)(5)(B)(i), and 1030(b).[7] Ancheta must serve 57 months in prison, forfeit a 1993 BMW and more than $58,000 in profit. He must also pay restitution of $15,000 US to the U.S. federal government for infecting the military computers.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/details?name=Jeanson%20James%20Ancheta&citystatezip=Downey%2C%20CA&rid=0x0 True People Research
  2. Web site: 24 January 2006. American owns up to hijacking PCs. BBC News. 2008-09-26 .
  3. Web site: January 24, 2006. Hacker pleads guilty to building 'botnet' army. Times Online. 2008-09-26 . By Holden Frith and AP . In the first case of its kind, Jeanson James Ancheta, of Downey, California, pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles court to four charges, including infecting machines at the China Lake Naval Air Facility in California and the Defence Information System Agency, in Falls Church, Virginia. . London.
  4. Web site: 2006-04-23. Malicious-software spreaders get sneakier, more prevalent. USA Today. 2008-09-26 . Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz .
  5. Web site: 2005-11-04. FBI sting nets botnet hacker. vnunet.com. 2008-09-26 . Iain Thomson . https://web.archive.org/web/20071220142959/http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2145579/fbi-arrest-botnet-master. 2007-12-20.
  6. Web site: 13 June 2007. FBI logs its millionth zombie address. the register. 2008-09-26 . Dan Goodin .
  7. Web site: January 27, 2006. Cybercrime does pay; here's how. CNET Reviews. 2008-09-11 . Robert Vamosi .
  8. Web site: January 23, 2006 . Zombie master Jeanson Ancheta pleads guilty . spamdailynews . 2008-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820044019/http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Zombie_master_pleads_guilty.asp . August 20, 2008 .

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