U.S. charges Russian arrested in Spain with operating spam botnet

A Russian national who was arrested earlier this month in Spain has been charged with criminal hacking offences in relation to operating the Kelihos botnet in an eight-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Connecticut, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 36, was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury in Bridgeport and charged with causing intentional damage to a protected computer and wire fraud, among other counts, the Justice Department said in