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COMPUTER VIRUS "MASTERMIND" ARRESTED IN ARMENIA: NETHERLANDS
Agence France Presse
October 26, 2010 Tuesday 3:22 PM GMT
Dutch authorities announced Tuesday the arrest in Armenia of the
alleged mastermind behind a computer virus crime group whose server
network was dismantled in the Netherlands a day earlier.
"At the request of the national (Dutch) prosecution service, a
27-year-old Armenian believed to be the brains behind the notorious
Bredolab network, was arrested at the Yerevan international airport
last night," the prosecution service said in a statement in The Hague.
Investigators said they dismantled a criminal network on Monday that
had used computer servers in the Netherlands to infect at least 30
million computers worldwide with a virus that allows others to obtain
information like bank passwords from infected computers.
The network was capable of infecting three million computers a month
and was sending an estimated 3.6 billion virus e-mails to users daily
by the end of 2009.
A total of 143 computer servers were disconnected in the Netherlands
on Monday, the prosecuting service said.
Since the Netherlands have no extradition agreement with Armenia,
"we are discussing the possibility of the suspect being put on trial
there", prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP.
From: A. Papazian
Agence France Presse
October 26, 2010 Tuesday 3:22 PM GMT
Dutch authorities announced Tuesday the arrest in Armenia of the
alleged mastermind behind a computer virus crime group whose server
network was dismantled in the Netherlands a day earlier.
"At the request of the national (Dutch) prosecution service, a
27-year-old Armenian believed to be the brains behind the notorious
Bredolab network, was arrested at the Yerevan international airport
last night," the prosecution service said in a statement in The Hague.
Investigators said they dismantled a criminal network on Monday that
had used computer servers in the Netherlands to infect at least 30
million computers worldwide with a virus that allows others to obtain
information like bank passwords from infected computers.
The network was capable of infecting three million computers a month
and was sending an estimated 3.6 billion virus e-mails to users daily
by the end of 2009.
A total of 143 computer servers were disconnected in the Netherlands
on Monday, the prosecuting service said.
Since the Netherlands have no extradition agreement with Armenia,
"we are discussing the possibility of the suspect being put on trial
there", prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP.
From: A. Papazian