Russian Spam Mastermind Is Jailed

Georgiy Avanesov has been jailed for 4 years because he has hacked over 30 million PC's. He was sending out over 3 billion junk mails a day, he even hired other cyber criminals. They attacked websites, advertised fake anti-virus programmes and sent out their own spam and viruses.

 By hacking websites and doing work for hire the 27 year-old managed to earn around £80,000 a month. This is a serious amount of money to be earning so just think of how many people he's stolen from and how many people who are now out of pocket and can't even work out how. When the Dutch police gained control of what he did Georgiy tried to stop them from controlling his websites by sending out a web-based attack on the police trying to gain everything back although he failed and was arrested shortly after. Amazing what you can manage to hack into, don't you think?