A financial-fraud botnet built with the same malware kit used in the now-defunct Mariposa botnet remains active after arrests this month of two Eastern European men who allegedly ran it. Researchers ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA Conference 2010 -- For the second time in weeks, a major botnet has been decapitated -- but this time investigators have arrested the alleged operators of the criminal network. A ...

The developer behind one of the world’s largest botnets has been sentenced to five years in prison. Matjaž Škorjanc, a 27 year old who went by the handle Iserdo, was also fined of €4,000 (about $5,500 ...

ED: Gaps in international cyber law could hamper Mariposa case DEK: The take down of the Mariposa botnet is a cyber law enforcement success story – but gaps in international cyber law could make it ...

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in ...

The alleged mastermind is a 23-year-old Slovenian whose internet nickname is Iserdo. The FBI said he was arrested in Slovenia after a lengthy investigation by police there, along with FBI and Spanish ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — An FBI official said Friday a two-year-long multinational investigation led them to nab a 23-year-old Slovenian, who allegedly created a malicious ...

A botnet is a group of Internet-connected personal computers that have been infected by a malicious application, which allows a hacker to control the infected computers without alerting the computer ...

Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a major botnet network of infected computers. The Mariposa botnet, which appears to be one of the world's largest, took ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 ...