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Police nab Argentinian teen who hacked money transfer and gambling websites

Argentinian police have arrested a 19-year-old hacker dubbed ‘the superhacker’ He was allegedly bleeding $50,000 (31,500) per month out of international money transfer and gambling websites. Police claim he was working out of a bedroom in the Buenos Aires home of his father, a computer expert himself. An extensive manhunt, dubbed Operation Zombie, was launched in 2012 after a number of sites were targeted by a virus hosted on a server for downloading online gaming applications. The zombie computers would launch denial of service attacks against servers, preventing users from accessing their accounts.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/17/police-nab-argentinian-teen-who-hacked-money-transfer-and-gambling-websites/

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