Security News > 2017 > April > U.S. Takes Down Kelihos Botnet After Its Russian Operator Arrested in Spain (The Hackers News)
2017-04-11 00:51
A Russian computer hacker arrested over the weekend in Barcelona was apparently detained for his role in a massive computer botnet, and not for last year's US presidential election hack as reported 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
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