Malware Dev Who Used Spam Botnet to Pay for College Gets No Prison Time

A Pittsburgh judge sentenced a malware dev to two years probation and no prison time for his involvement with a spam botnet.

The man in question is Sean Tiernan, 29, of Santa Clara, California, and the FBI says he was in control of a botnet made up of over 77,000 computers infected with malware that Tiernan was using to send spam messages.

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