"Spam King" was arrested in Spain: castigated the US election-spam us elections-IT information

According to a recent Reuters news, spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Spain on 9th, Russian hackers bide·liewa Shao-fu (Piotr Levachov) was arrested by the police in Spain, has been transferred to Madrid by Spanish police.

Reports that the arrest warrant was issued by the United States. Justice Department sources said, after the United States Government has arrested in liewa Shao-fu, an extradition request to the Spanish Government. The Spanish national criminal court will examine the extradition requests from the United States. Russia says liewa Shao was arrested for suspected involvement in election-related attacks.

According to the computer security and cyber crime website KrebsOnSecurity says, liewa Shao-fu is a spam zombie website of "hidden hands", its long-term use of alias "Severa" send viruses and spam messages to the user, and the site sends messages within a few years of infection by between 70,000 and 90,000 computers, can send about 1.5 billion spam messages per day. According to the liewa Shao's wife Maria said, "the Spanish police told me that may be liewa Shaw designed a computer virus affecting the outcome of the US election, the US authorities accused Shao involving cybercrime, liewa, response to the US request, Spanish police arrested liewa Shao-fu. ”

However, the US Justice Department said the arrest was just a criminal case, had no apparent connection with national security, and on cases of election interference, authorities now say, "still under wraps" unable to provide the relevant information.

“垃圾邮件之王”在西班牙被逮捕：曾攻击美国大选 - 垃圾邮件,美国大选 - IT资讯

根据路透社近日消息，俄罗斯驻西班牙大使馆发言人9日证实，俄罗斯黑客彼得·列瓦绍夫（Piotr Levachov）在西班牙被警方逮捕，目前已被西班牙警方转移至马德里。

有报道指出，这次逮捕令是由美国发出的。美国司法部消息人士称，美国政府已在列瓦绍夫落网后，向西班牙政府提出引渡要求。西班牙国家刑事法院将就美方提出的引渡要求进行审查。而俄罗斯方面表示，列瓦绍夫或因涉嫌参与美国大选相关的黑客攻击而被逮捕。

按照计算机安全和网络犯罪网站KrebsOnSecurity的说法，列瓦绍夫是一家垃圾邮件僵尸网站的“幕后黑手”，其长期利用别名“Severa”向用户发送病毒与垃圾邮件，而这家网站发送的邮件在数年内感染了7万至9万台电脑，每天可以发送大约15亿封垃圾邮件。根据列瓦绍夫的妻子玛丽亚的说法表示，“西班牙警察告诉我，可能是列瓦绍夫设计的一种电脑病毒影响了美国大选的结果，美国当局指控列瓦绍夫牵涉到网络犯罪，应美国要求，西班牙警察逮捕列瓦绍夫。”

不过美国相关司法部门表示，这次逮捕事件只是一起刑事案件，同国家安全没有明显联系，而关于大选受干涉的案件，目前相关部门表示“仍处于保密状态”无法提供相关信息。