Botnet Hackers Held in UK and Finland
Simon Freeman writes in The Times Online (UK):
Three men suspected of bombarding business computers with e-mail viruses have been arrested following an investigation into internet fraud involving police in Britain and Finland.More here.
The trio - a 63-year-old from England, a 28-year-old from Scotland and a 19-year-old from Finland - are accused of creating trojan viruses attached to spam emails with the intention of causing a "massive infection".
It is believed that once activated, the virus - known variously as Ryknos, Breplibot or Stinkx - allowed the gang access to commercial information through a back door.
The virus was programmed to infect linked machines, creating a zombie network (or botnet) of compromised computers under their control.
(Thanks, Jose.)
posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2006 07:33:00 AM
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