Spanish police have revealed that they have arrested three men responsible for one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers.
All are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills.
It is estimated that the so-called Mariposa botnet was made up of nearly 13 million computers in 190 countries.
It included PCs inside more than half of Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks, investigators said.
Full story: BBC News – Spanish police arrest masterminds of ‘massive’ botnet