Major Malware group bust in Spain
March 4th, 2010 - 11:38 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Madrid, Mar 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There has been a major malware group bust in Spain. The Spanish authorities have gotten hold of one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers and a data vacuum that is responsible for stealing information from a whooping 12.7 million infected PCs. The Spanish Police must certainly be lauded for getting hold of the notorious group, that is responsible for spreading worldwide malicious malware.
The Spanish police officers also arrested many members of the group. They arrested the 3 main leaders of the Mariposa botnet. These computer criminals took the help of a botnet attack to get hold of over 13 million computers, which unfortunately also included some computers in major corporations. A police spokesman also said that, “I don’t think there’s anything about this guy that makes him smarter than any of the other botnet guys, but the (Mariposa) software, it’s very professional, and it’s very effective. It came alive and started spreading and it got bigger than him.”
The police investigators are also looking into the bank accounts of the group to calculate the financial gains that they used to make from their criminal activities. “They’re not like these people from the Russian mafia or Eastern European mafia who like to have sports cars and good watches and good suits — the most frightening thing is they are normal people who are earning a lot of money with cyber crime,” Cesar Lorenza, a captain with Spain’s Guardia Civil said.
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