Russian accused of operating Kelihos botnet extradited to US

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Russian accused of operating Kelihos botnet extradited to US
A Russian man accused of operating a network of infected computers has been extradited to the United States from Spain. US prosecutors said Peter Levashov, 37, ran the Kelihos botnet, a network of more than 100,000 infected devices used by cyber criminals to distribute viruses, ransomware, ...

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