Spain Busts Hackers for Infecting 13 Million PCs

March 2nd, 2010 admin

BOSTON (Reuters) — Spanish police have shut down a ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other valuable data in what may be the biggest cyber-raid to date. Spain’s Civil Guard said on Tuesday that it arrested three men suspected of running the so-called Mariposa botnet, named after the Spanish word for butterfly. A press conference to give more details is scheduled for Wednesday. Mariposa had infected machines in 190 countries in more than half of the world’s 1,000 largest companies and in at least 40 big financial institutions, according to two Internet security firms that helped Spanish officials crack the ring, Canada’s Defense Intelligence and Spain’s Panda Security. “It was so nasty, we thought ‘We have to turn this off…


Originally posted on Wired

 
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