Mariposa Botnet is Closed and Attackers Are Arrested
By Jason on March 3, 2010 | Computer Security, Mariposa, botnet, netkairo, jonyloleante, ostiator
Spanish executive arrested three men that had Mariposa botnet under control. It is thought that Mariposa controlled 12.7 million computers over the world.
Three arrested people all are Spanish citizens: "netkairo," 31; "jonyloleante," 30 and "ostiator," 25. According to these handles police was able to identify them.
Mariposa appeared to be one of the most largest botnets over the world. It took over millions of computers and not all of them are already clean. Many of them continue to be infected.
A researcher with Panda Security, Pedro Bustamante said that Mariposa-infected computers were linked to 13 million unique Internet Protocol addresses. Mariposa botnet was a tool for a criminals gain their malicious intentions. They were stealing banking credentials and were launching distributed denial-of-service attacks. They did not use it to load malwares into the network though. This was also a smart move, because it kept Mariposa under the radar.
It is confirmed that there are many infected computers, but this time researches is doing everything they can to remove the malicious code from the Internet.
The main mistake criminals did was using a real name while registering command-and-control domains. It was their crucial mistake.
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