Slovenia (ip-192.com): After a two year investigation, police arrested three hackers linked to the Mariposa botnet in Slovenia. The botnet was used to steel passwords, credit card and bank account information. Mariposa was built around a computer virus known as "Butterfly bot" and was use to launch denial of service attacks. Industry experts estimate that [...]
800,000 Personal Records Compromised
March 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
Madrid (ip-192.com): Personal details relating to 800,000 were found on a computer after the Spanish police arrested three ringleaders connected to a botnet called Mariposa, the Spanish word for butterfly (ip-192.com reported here). The botnet controlling almost 13 million people did have enough power to bring down the IT-infrastructure of a whole country, said the [...]
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