Belarus Arrests Suspected Ringleader of Global Cyber Crime Network

Belarus Arrests Suspected Ringleader of Global Cyber Crime Network
An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, June 24, 2013. Reuters/Kacper Pempel
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON–One of Eastern Europe’s most prolific cyber criminals has been arrested in a joint operation involving Belarus, Germany and the United States that aimed to dismantle a vast computer network used to carry out financial scams, officials said on Tuesday.

National police in Belarus, working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, said they had arrested a citizen of Belarus on suspicion of selling malicious software who they described as administrator of the Andromeda network.