by Tiffany Rider
A New Zealand teen has been named as the kingpin in a ring of global botnet activity, hacking over a million computers worldwide.
The 18-year-old, known by his online name "AKILL," is being investigated by the FBI after the discovery of at least 2.5 million PCs being attacked by vicious botnets. Botnets have become the most popular weapon for cyber criminals, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller in a statement from CNN. Operation "Bot Roast" was launched by the FBI in 2005 to fight back against botnet activity. This operation helped find damages up to $20 million in theft from hackers using botnets.
Symantec Corp., the leading online security provider, found that more than 5 million computers had been attacked and inhabited by botnets. It is possible that "AKILL" and his ring of hackers, called the A-team, had infected one million of those attacked computers.
The FBI now has taken posession of the teen's computer hardware and other equipment. The teen has not been identified or charged at this time.
To read the CNN article, CLICK HERE.
To check out what Sci-Tech had to say, CLICK HERE.
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