Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on websites of a local insurance firm and ISP. The creator of the Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets has been sentenced to prison for compromising hundreds of thousands of devices. The botnet uses SSH brute-force attacks to infect devices and uses a custom implant written in the Go Language. Read the full article.
Source: https://threatpost.com/ddos-worm-creator-heading-prison-031110/73666/