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Josh Fink writes “The Guardian has an interesting piece on ‘Akill’, a teenager from New Zealand who was the ringleader of a hacking ring. The economic impact of the ring may have totaled £9.7m. ‘The teenager was the “head of an international spybot ring that has infiltrated computers around the world with their malicious software’, Martin Kleintjes told New Zealand national radio … The FBI estimates that more than 1m computers have been infected, and puts the combined economic losses at more than $20m (£9.7m).’ Eight people have been charged, pleaded guilty or have been convicted since June. The FBI really has been putting a crackdown on botnets / spyware recently.”

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