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…


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