Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii Novgorod, Russia, pleaded guilty in a US federal court on Tuesday for his role in the development and maintenance of the infamous Linux botnet known asthat. Ebury botnet network of thousands of compromised Linux systems had the capacity of sending over 35 million spam messages and redirecting more than 500,000 Web visitors to exploit kits every day. Senakh is scheduled to be sentenced on 3rd August 2017, after pleading guilty to a conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/linux-botnet-ebury.html