![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gangster3.gif\")
Teenagers convicted last week of setting up a huge
\n network of compromised Windows PCs used it to gain an unfair advantage
\n in online gaming – not to send spam.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Steve Santorelli, of Scotland Yard’s Computer Crime Outwar<\/a> is an online game which you get farther ahead Suspects in the case used the Randex worm to establish a 30,000 strong from The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teenagers convicted last week of setting up a huge network of compromised Windows PCs used it to gain an unfair advantage in online gaming – not to send spam. Detective Sergeant Steve Santorelli, of Scotland Yard’s Computer Crime Unit, said … Continue reading
\n Unit, said the two principal suspects were members of a gaming clan which
\n used illicit access to an estimated 30,000 PCs to generate clicks and
\n therefore gain more points in a game called Outwar<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n by getting people to click your "special link." The more people
\n that click your link, the more money you get per hour, the more stuff
\n you can buy, and the more people you can attack. If you are the top player
\n in any of the three characters, you win an x-box.<\/p>\n
\n botnet used to carry out "low profile DDoS attacks" and steal
\n the CD keys for games, he explained. "They had a huge weapon and
\n didn’t use as much as they could have done," Santorelli told El
\n Reg.<\/p>\n