FBI Says Mastermind of Botnet Nabbed

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Associated Press

International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

A 23-year-old Slovenian known as Iserdo was snagged in Maribor, Slovenia, after a lengthy investigation by Slovenian Criminal Police there along with FBI and Spanish authorities.

His arrest comes about five months after Spanish police broke up the massive cyber scam, arresting three of the alleged ringleaders who operated the so-called Mariposa botnet, stealing credit cards and online banking credentials. The botnet -- a network of infected computers -- appeared in December 2008 and infected more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and at least 40 major banks.

Officials declined to release Iserdo's real name and the exact charges filed against him, but said the arrest took place about 10 days ago and the man has been released on bond.




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[Turbineguy]

1. "....released on bond...."

They couldn't provide him a computer with internet access in jail?

[Soylent Brice]

2. he'll be recruited by one gov't agency or another.

any gov't involved in his apprehension are probably all haggling over him now.