pro-putin russian government operation. i ll quote this. peter severa s spam system ran a sophisticated evolving family of computer viruses, called kelihos and walladac, the kelihos virus had been made to send spam, but during the election it was made to send e-mails to computer accounts. and those e-mails saying that the business man who ran across vladimir putin had come out as gay. so this guy was one of the most famous criminal spam king pins in the world. these viruses and botnet operations that he built for his spam entire apparently had made
also, his own online criminal activity was complicated in a pro-putin russian government operation. i ll quote this part from today s new york times. peter severa ran a family of computer viruses. a sophisticated evolving family of computers called waledec and kelihos. the kelihos virus has been designed to spread spam, but during the election in 2012 it was used to send political messages to e-mail accounts on computers with russian e-mail accounts that led to fake news stories that vladimir putin came out as gay. these viruss made him fabulously wealthy. when buzzfeed wrote up this story today, they quoted a fellow russian hacker is describing peter love shove living a lifestyle it would have been embarrassed an oligarch. he s a top ten internationally listed criminal spam kingpin. he s reported to have recruited other hackers online to work for the russian intelligence service. his own viruss were put to work in a russian election. and now he s been arrested in spain. and get this