In a staggering disclosure of events, Spanish police have caught three persons that it is claming to be conspirators of one of the largest networks of virus infected computers. All three nabbed persons are Spanish nationals without any criminal records and limited hacking skills. This particular botnet that is named as Mariposa is developed from nearly 13 millions computers in 190 countries.

And to ones amazement those Botnet computers are mostly more than half of the Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks, investigators. These guys to the latest information were judged by their internet names like netkairo, aged 31, johnyloeante, aged 30 and ostiator 25.  According to police there are other culprits that are in the queue to be arrested.

The first member of the gang was arrested in early February, when he tried to log into a network without concealing his computer address. And his computer linked to two more hacker who was arrested at the end of the month of February. The botnet was monitored and deactivated in month of December after a massive investigation done by FBI, the Spanish Guardia Civil and security expert around the world.

This botnet was created for stealing sensitive information involving usernames, passwords, banking credentials and credit card data from social media sites and other online e-mail services. One of the arrested people had 800,000 pieces of personal data on his machine and many a huge numbers of businesses were targeted.

After the closure of botnet Defence Intelligence was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack occurs when a website receive massive requests for pages often by a botnet. And that attack was so powerful that unnamed ISP put it offline for several hours.

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