FBI Arrests Russian Spammer Behind Notorious 'Mega-D' Botnet

See the guy in the picture above? He's Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year-old from Moscow, who is believed by the FBI to be the man behind 'Mega-D,' a network of half a million computers that send out about one-third of all spam in the world. He was arrested while visiting Las Vegas for an automotive trade show.

Experts cited by federal investigators reported that Nikolaenko's botnet controlled more than 500,000 infected computers that were capable of sending a total of ten billion spam e-mails a day.

How the FBI nabbed a Russian spam king in Las Vegas.