Spanish police clamp down on cyber criminals

Spanish police say they have clamped down on one of the biggest networks of distributing virus-infected data that stole credit card numbers from over 12 million PCs.

The "Mariposa" networks had siphoned off financial and other information from inside half of the largest 1,000 US companies.

Because of the activities of the network, computers using about 12.7m internet addresses in 190 countries were compromised, though some machines might have been using multiple addresses.

Investigators have arrested three alleged ringleaders of the Mariposa network that has posed a great threat to the cyber space since December 2008.

Mariposa collected login data for banking and social networking sites, e-mail passwords and credit card numbers. Spain's Guardia Civil arrested the suspects who used the online nicknames of Netkairo, Ostiator and Johnyloleante last month.

Source: PressTV.
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