A trio of text message spammers, all busted when the FBI infiltrated and shut down the Darkode cybercrime market, have all pleaded guilty, but may never see the inside of a prison cell.
Join us for the weekly Chet Chat! In this episode: Cybercrime (and punishment), crimeware, the Angler exploit kit, and how the Fourth Amendment applies to social networks.
Darkode, a notorious cybercrime marketplace for malware, zero-day exploits, and botnets, was permanently shut down by a massive law enforcement operation coordinated between agencies in the US, Europe and elsewhere.