Bandwidth!
"That botnet, referred to as "#14" by researchers, was among the largest on the internet"
Ouch, now consider the collateral cost in bandwidth to anyone whose network was traversed by groups of bots participating in these attacks.
"Kaye was a talented and sophisticated cyber criminal who created one of the world's largest networks of compromised computers which he then made available to other cyber criminals with no consideration as to the damage it would cause," said Russell Tyner from the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
Yeah, thanks for big-upping this asshole's ego.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
