Fedscoop: A group of senators have crafted a bill that would give the government greater powers to prosecute and punish those who operate and rent out botnets.
Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., earlier this week introduced the Botnet Prevention Act, which would expand the Justice Department’s civil injunction authority to tear down botnets, issue new criminal offenses for renting out to botnets and raise the penalties for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
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