On October 25 evening a 27-year-old Armenian citizen was detained at the Yerevan airport suspected of being a coordinator of Bredolab “botnet” (botnet is a collection of software agents that run autonomously and automatically and enable the hacker to perform certain actions using data of the attacked computer).

According to the British Guardian, policeman declined to disclose gender of the arrested. The suspect is presently held in Armenia.

On October 25, police in the Netherlands got access to Bredolab botnet uniting over 30 million computers all over the globe. The police disconnected 143 computer servers belonging to the Dutch hosting provider LeaseWeb.

The Guardian reported that LeaseWeb identified malicious use of its servers in the summer, but police did not allow the company to destroy the botnet immediately.

Bredolab infected about 3 million computers in a month and sent 3.6 billion e-mails. The letter contained a text telling about death of a famous person and invited a user to open the file. Computer was infected after the malicious file was opened.

It enabled to obtain personal information by recording logins, passwords and financial data.