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Russian programmer detained in Spain was 'King of Spam'
Russian programmer Pyotr Levashov, detained in Spain at the request of the United States, is accused of sending spam using a botnet.
This was noted in an official statement by the U.S. Department of Justice.
It follows from the document that Levashov was detained during an operation intended to stop the activity of a botnet called Kelihos. According to the Department, the programmer had been running it since 2010. “On April 8, 2017, we started the extraordinary task of blocking malicious …