Arrests made in dismantling of Mariposa Botnet, consisting 13million infected PC’s!
Big news in the world of internet security. A Botnet this large is responsible for sending a tremendous volume of Spam emails and could be used to wreak even greater Havoc. This is a big win for the good guys, we really need to unravel these criminal networks, the event of arrests in this case is the big news. This is likely to make people reconsider their path in this area of cyber-crime.
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Another Botnet Gets Dismantled, But This Time With Arrests
SAN FRANCISCO — RSA Conference 2010 — For the second time in weeks, a major botnet has been decapitated — but this time investigators have arrested the alleged operators of the criminal network.
A team made up of law enforcement officials in Spain, the FBI, Panda Security, Defence Intelligence, and Georgia Tech cut off the so-called Mariposa botnet’s command and control (C&C) infrastructure in one day in December, ultimately leading to the arrest of the alleged head botmaster and two of his partners earlier this month by Spanish authorities.
Mariposa was a massive global botnet with close to 13 million infected machines in more than 190 countries — including those of half of all Fortune 1000 firms.Read more at www.informationweek.com
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