Ryan Neil Green, 32 years old, from Paducah in Kentucky, was sentenced to two years suspended and 50 hours of charitable work for the sale of a botnet spam to the infamous Darkode hacking forum.
According to court records, between 2006 and 2012, Green built a botnet from 77.000 bots, which he rented to other cyber criminals through Darkode, ενός φόρουμ όπου συνομιλούσαν διάφορες κατηγορίες hackers και απατεώνες για να αγοράσουν ή να πουλήσουν κακόβουλο λογισμικό, hacking εργαλεία, ακόμα και τα drugs.
Green was one of the 70 hackers who were arrested by law enforcement last year around the world following the successful penetration of the police into the forum and its definitive closure.
Despite the fact that he had not been involved in recent activities, the user had previously defrauded and was arrested.
Ο Green was sentenced to a suspended sentence because the judge was convinced that the accused has changed his life and abandoned his illegal activities as a hacker, after the birth of his daughter and after establishing his own web design company where he deals with optimization machines searchς και φέρει την επωνυμία Rygre Digital Marketing.
Another factor that helped the accused to obtain suspension of the sentence was his full cooperation with the authorities.
