A New Zealand cybercrime police force nabbed an 18-year-old this week who goes by the cyber ID "AKILL," officials said. While the New Zealand officials haven't arrested the man, he is being interviewed in conjunction with a wider botnet crackdown involving the FBI and Dutch authorities. The FBI said AKILL is believed to be the ringleader of an elite international botnet coding group that is responsible for infecting more than 1 million computers. Botnets are networks of remotely controlled PCs that have been infected with malware viruses, adware and spyware that are installed remotely.
November 30th 2007