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Authorities in Spain have arrested a Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world's most notorious spam kingpins.
Spanish police arrested Pyotr Levashov under an international warrant executed in the city of Barcelona, according to Reuters. Russian state-run television station RT (formerly Russia Today) reported that Levashov was arrested while vacationing in Spain with his family.
[...] Levashov is currently listed as #7 in the the world's Top 10 Worst Spammers list maintained by anti-spam group Spamhaus. The U.S. Justice Department maintains that Severa was the Russian partner of Alan Ralsky, a convicted American spammer who specialized in "pump-and-dump" spam schemes designed to artificially inflate the value of penny stocks.
[...] There is ample evidence that Severa is the cybercriminal behind the Waledac spam botnet, a spam engine that for several years infected between 70,000 and 90,000 computers and was capable of sending approximately 1.5 billion spam messages a day.
Alleged Spam King Pyotr Levashov Arrested
Fake News at Work in Spam Kingpin's Arrest?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @02:12PM (2 children)
Any idea why the summary is referencing someone named Severa?
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday April 13 2017, @03:01PM (1 child)
Levashov allegedly went by the aliases Peter Severa and Peter of the North
Summary needs editing.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @10:53PM
Didn't he play with Chicago?