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Mega-D botnet

The Mega-D, also known by its alias of Ozdok, is a botnet that at its peak was responsible for sending 32% of spam worldwide.

Arrest
In November 2010, Oleg Nikolaenko was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with violations of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Nikolaenko eventually pleaded guilty of operating the Mega-D botnet to create a "zombie network" of as many as 500,000 infected computers. == See also ==
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