Malware Group Bust

Police authorities have made a big bust in Spain, tracking down a group responsible for widespread malicious malware online.

The Spanish officers made the arrests in Madrid of a ring of computer criminals using a "botnet" attack to invade 13 million computers, including PCs in many major companies.

Speaking of one of the masterminds of this Mariposa botnet, a police representative said "I don't think there's anything about this guy that makes him smarter than any of the other botnet guys, but the (Mariposa) software, it's very professional, it's very effective. It came alive and started spreading and it got bigger than him."

And now the three men are in something bigger than all of them, but hopefully computer security will be a bit easier to maintain for a little while.

Malware Group Bust

Authorities have smashed one of the world's biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs. The "botnet" of infected computers included PCs inside more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and more than 40 major banks, according to investigators. Spanish investigators, working with private computer-security firms, have arrested the three alleged ringleaders of the so-called Mariposa botnet,..

Malware Group Bust