Arrests made in botnet crackdown
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:45 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7120251.stm
Police in New Zealand have questioned a teenager believed to be the ringleader of an international cyber-crime group.
The group is alleged to have infiltrated more than one million computers and skimmed millions of dollars from people's bank accounts.
The teenager, who is 18, cannot be named for legal reasons but was known by an alias as "Akill".
He was detained as part of an FBI crackdown on hi-tech criminals who run botnets - networks of hijacked PCs