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Land court in Dusseldorf, Germany, ruled that DDoS attacks on servers should be inflicted with the imprisonment for 10 years.

The ruling was brought in March 2011 but it has been published only now. The reason was the block of bookmaker websites. A convicted person tried to blackmail owners of online services through attacking their servers placed in Russia.

Three owners of the six agreed to pay to the perpetrator but the rest refused which led to the blocking of their websites. As a result they suffered losses accounting for hundreds of thousands of euro.

As it became known, Spanish authorities eliminated the world's largest botnets infiltrated more than half of the Fortune 1000 companies, having arrested three of the ringleaders of the the botnet, named Mariposa.

The alleged haven’t been identified by name, but they're described as Spanish citizens with no criminal records whose internet names and ages were "netkairo," 31; "jonyloleante," 30; and "ostiator," 25.

As it became known, Wednesday, two Romanian criminals, Petru Bogdan Belbita, 25, and Cornel Ionut Tonita, 28, that had previously been accused of internet scams extradited to the US to face charges.