Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, Nano Core
Summary: Ukrainian authorities rearrested 33-year-old Russian Gennady Kapkanov, alleged leader of the Avalanche spam botnet, who was reportedly living under a phony passport in Poltav after evading a 2016 global crackdown in which authorities blocked hundreds of malicious servers and hundreds of thousands of domains. Separately, 27-year-old Arkansas programmer Taylor Huddleston was sentenced to 33 months in prison after acknowledging he knew his NanoCore RAT, marketed on Hackforums, was used to spy on webcams and steal passwords.
What's compelling: Huddleston's 33-month sentence turned on where he sold his software and what he knew about his buyers, while programmer Marcus Hutchins - credited with helping stop WannaCry - faces four counts tied to the Kronos banking trojan and has pleaded not guilty.
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