Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany
Summary: German police arrested Matjaž "Iserdo" Škorjanc, the Slovenian man convicted of authoring the Mariposa botnet and founding the Darkode cybercrime forum, on a U.S. international arrest warrant for extradition, the Slovenian Press Agency reported. A Slovenian court sentenced him to four years and ten months in December 2013 for creating the Mariposa malware, a botnet first spotted in 2008 that was estimated to have infected more than 1 million computers, and the DOJ unsealed an updated indictment in June 2019 adding a fourth U.S.-based defendant, Thomas K. McCormick, a.k.a. "fubar."
Bottom line: Škorjanc went on to serve as chief technology officer at NiceHash, the Slovenian cryptocurrency mining marketplace from which roughly $52 million worth of bitcoin disappeared in December 2017, an incident Slovenian police are reportedly still investigating.
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