Australian man arrested for worldwide computer virus attacks

CANBERRA. August 13. KAZINFORM An Australian man was charged on Thursday with infecting 3,000 computers worldwide with viruses designed to capture banking details; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

The 20-year-old man was arrested after a three-month investigation by electronic crime sections of South Australian Police and the Australian Federal Police.

"It will be alleged that the arrested man unlawfully compromised over 3,000 computers throughout Australia and worldwide by infecting those computers with malicious software," South Australian Police said in a statement; Kazinform cites Xinhua.

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