Botnet Think Denies Involvement

The human indicted by Microsoft of being at the back a outrageous botnet assault has insisted he is "absolutely not guilty".

Microsoft mentioned Russian inhabitant Andrey Sabelnikov "wrote and/or participated in creating" the Kelihos program that putrescent thousands of machines.

However, Mr Sabelnikov contacted the BBC to say he was "surprised and shocked" at the accusation, adding: "I will infer my innocence."

Microsoft mentioned it stood by the allegation it done progressing this month.

"As this is a box tentative in court, you cannot criticism serve solely to say that you look deliver to saying Mr Sabelnikov in justice so you can go on this discussion," mentioned Richard Boscovich, comparison profession for Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit.

Microsoft declared Mr Sabelnikov, who is a one-time worker of antivirus firm Agnitum, in justice credentials filed in the US.

The program hulk claimed their own investigations unclosed explanation that Mr Sabelnikov "used the malware to control, operate, sustain and blossom the Kelihos botnet".

In a blog post , Mr Sabelnikov mentioned the allegations were unfounded.

"I was really astounded and repelled to read in the press that I was being indicted of a disgusting crime in connection with the Kelihos botnet," he wrote.

"I am surely not guilty, have never been entangled in handling botnets or any other identical programmes and what is more have never done any distinction from such activity. I wish to prominence that I have no connection possibly to the wake up of Kelihos or to the placement of spam.

"Unfortunately, the avalanche of publications in the press, referencing false and misrepresented information, has inadvertently inflicted a great treat of mental damage on the companies for whom I have worked or am working, and moreover adversely affected their business reputation."

Botnets similar to Kelihos are combined by the expansion of rouge software, frequently around putrescent emails or web browser vulnerabilities.

Each "bot", as they are known, is a hijacked P.C. that may be used by hackers for any number of unlawful activities.

The Kelihos botnet was used for sending out spam and swelling malware until it was "neutralised" in September 2011.

At its peak, it was mentioned to have been in manage of 41,000 putrescent machines and able to send over 3.8 billion spam emails in a day.