Alleged controllers of 'Mariposa' botnet arrested in Spain
Wayne Brooker at Wednesday 3rd March filed under Competitions
"Spanish investigators have arrested three alleged ringleaders of the
so-called "Mariposa" botnet, which had infected and controlled up to
12.7m PCs, including more than 500 of the US Fortune 1,000 companies
and more than 40 major banks.
The PCs, running Microsoft Windows, were spread among 190 countries, and infected by a computer virus that allowed the ringleaders to steal credit card details and online banking credentials, as well as sensitive data from the hard drives of the machines."