FBI Arrests Man Accused of Covertly Installing Ad Software
In the first U.S. prosecution of its kind, FBI agents arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles man Thursday on charges that he cracked some 400,000 Windows machines and covertly installed pop-up-generating adware on them, in a scheme that allegedly brought in $60,000 in ill-gotten profits.
Alleged Pop-Up Hacker Busted, Wired News, November 3, 2005.
