Creator of Kelhios Botnet arrested in Spain
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1 min readApr 12, 2017
A Russian PC programmer captured throughout the end of the week in Barcelona was confined for his part in a huge PC botnet, and not a year ago’s US presidential race hack as revealed by the Russian media.
Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 32-years-old Russian computer programmer, suspected of operating the Kelihos botnet — a global network of over 100,000 infected computers that was used to deliver spam, steal login passwords, and infect computers with ransomware and other types of malware since approximately 2010, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.
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