FBI targets a young Russian behind a third of All World Spam2010-12-01 10:17 by DanielaTags: FBI, spam, security
An FBI investigation has identified the young Russian man behind the notorious "Mega-D" botnet, the malicious network of more than 500,000 infected computers that was capable of sending ten billion spam e-mails a day and, until late last year, reportedly accounted for nearly a third of the spam clogging the Internet, The Smoking Gun has learned. An ongoing grand jury probe is targeting Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year-old Moscow resident, for allegedly violating the anti-spam law, as well as "abetting violations of the mail and wire fraud statutes," according to an affidavit sworn last month by an FBI agent (an excerpt from that document can be found here). Nikolaenko has not been previously tied to the creation or operation of "Mega-D" (nor, for that matter, has anyone else been publicly linked to the mysterious, and illegal, botnet). Federal investigators believe that Nikolaenko's "Mega-D" botnet sent billions of e-mails on behalf of scam artists peddling fake Rolexes, counterfeit prescription medications, purported erectile dysfunction drugs, and "herbal remedies" not approved by government regulators. Read more -here-
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