Owen Thorn Walker, 18, arrested in New Zealand for allegedly masterminding a botnetting operation. The New Zealand-based accused is said to have been the leader of a group of programmers that set up the botnet that infected 1.3 million computers with the purpose of stealing credit cards and manipulating stock trades. The FBI has put the losses caused by the Netherlands-sited botnet at US$20 million, most of it siphoned from the bank accounts of victims across the globe.”]
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