> German Police Arrest Two Bitcoin-mining Botnet Operators
[DATE: 05/12/2013 12:48]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Two alleged hackers have been arrested in Bavaria and Lower Saxony on suspicion of operating a botnet of compromised PCs to perform bitcoin mining. In related raids, the authorities discovered bitcoins currently valued at around €700,000 and evidence of other criminal activity involving copyright and pornography offenses.