The Russian programmer Peter Levashov alleged to be behind the victory of American President Donald Trump is arrested. He is accused of hacking U.S. Election by creating a virus that helped D.Trump win the U.S. election held last year. The hacker was arrested by Spanish police according to the warrant issued by FBI. His arrest was reported from Barcelona. A legal source told the AFP that Levashov is “suspected of having participated in hacking the election campaign in the United States." He is also suspected for mass hacking and looting sensitive information and data. It is believed that he is the leader of the team involved in various ransom attacks and fraud E-mails which made his team pool a huge sum of money by blackmailing computer owners. The Register of Known Spam Operations, a group that collects information on individuals linked to groups who mass send spam emails, lists the name Peter Levashov as an alias or assumed name of Peter Severa. The register describes Severa as: “a spammer who writes and sells virus-spamming spamware and botnet access. Is probably involved in the writing and releasing of viruses & trojans. One of the longest operating criminal spam-lords on the internet.” His wife talked to the media and said: “My husband was arrested in connection with a virus creation which led to the victory of D. Trump” and not Hillary Clinton.He is the backbone of kelihos virus from 2010 which can infect any private computers or systems and can pull all the sensitive information.The FBI director James Comey had earlier pointed out that Russian hackers were behind Hillary Clinton’s failure in U.S. election. The FBI is seriously investigating the issue and the relationship between Russian hackers and D. Trump's team
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