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|Abstract=On the 4th of December the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) issued a press release stating they had arrested two suspects for computer crimes, with the support of GSG 9 (A German special operations unit). The release detailed that the two suspect has reportedly modified, distributed and used existing malware as part of a botnet, which had been responsible for mining over 700,000 euros worth of bitcoins (which have now been confiscated). There was also evidence found of other crimes committed, such as: fraud and distribution of copyrighted pornographic material. The full press release is in German but can be read here. | |||
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| Date | 2013 / 2013-12-05 |
| Editor/Conference | MalwareTech |
| Link | http://www.malwaretech.com/2013/12/infamous-skynet-botnet-author-allegedly.html (Archive copy) |
| Author | MalwareTech |
| Type | Blogpost |
Abstract
“ On the 4th of December the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) issued a press release stating they had arrested two suspects for computer crimes, with the support of GSG 9 (A German special operations unit). The release detailed that the two suspect has reportedly modified, distributed and used existing malware as part of a botnet, which had been responsible for mining over 700,000 euros worth of bitcoins (which have now been confiscated). There was also evidence found of other crimes committed, such as: fraud and distribution of copyrighted pornographic material. The full press release is in German but can be read here.
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@misc{MalwareTech2013BFR2236,
editor = {MalwareTech},
author = {MalwareTech},
title = {Infamous Skynet botnet author allegedly arrested},
date = {05},
month = Dec,
year = {2013},
howpublished = {\url{http://www.malwaretech.com/2013/12/infamous-skynet-botnet-author-allegedly.html}},
}