FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017.REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo
WASHINGTON: The US takedown of the huge Kelihos botnet and the arrest of its Russian operator shut down one of the world’s top generators of spam and online extortion.
But that will barely blunt the flow of unwanted e-mails touting fake sexual performance drugs or delivering vicious malware that allows criminals to ransom your computer data.
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