New Zealand Botnet Master Arrested

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for more & updated news about the world of IRC.

You're also welcome to follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook Fanpage.

If you liked this post, please show your support by clicking on our flattr button - thank you! :)

An 18-year-old New Zealand suspect has been arrested in a botnet case. He is suspected of controlling a botnet consisting over 1 million infected computers and having caused nearly 13.5 Euro million in damages.

The botnet consists of AKBot worm infected machines. The botnet has been used to attack IRC networks, security companies and the University of Philadelphia.

“He is extremely clever”, said Maarten Kleintjes, head of the computer criminality department.

He is also acused of leading a worldwide network called the A-Team with members from New Zealand, Holland and the USA. New Zealand police worked togheter with the FBI on this arrest, codenamed “AKILL”.

Thirteen more arrest warrants have been issued.

FBI Arrests Three Botherders With the arrest of three suspect botherders the FBI dis...
Another 100.000 Zombies Botnet bust Yesterday, the creator of a Botnet consisting of more t...
Person Spreading Trojans Over IRC Arrested Lately a wave of arrests have been made regarding peopl...
Three Dronerunners Arrested A 63-year-old from England and a 28-year-old man in Sco...
Dronerunner Arrested in California Worldwide the interest from the law enforcing organizat [...]...

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/digg_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/dzone_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blinklist_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blogmarks_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/newsvine_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/technorati_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/myspace_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/yahoobuzz_48.png

http://cdn.irc-junkie.org/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/twitter_48.png

Tags: Botnets, DDoS, IRC

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm and is filed under Botnets/DDoS, IRC. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.