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He's believed to be the leader of an international cyber-crime gang that's stolen millions of pounds from people’s bank accounts. But now the 18 year old who’s known by the alias Akill or Akill has been questioned in New Zealand as part of an FBI-led crackdown on the high-tech crime. The FBI estimates that more than a million computers were targeted and more that 12 million pounds stolen. Katie Razzall reports.

Could a teenage from New Zealand / be the linchpin of an international crime network? Accused of skimming 20 million dollars from people’s bank accounts known only by his online name Akill, he's said to be very bright and very skilled. it's alleged the cyber criminals took control of more than a million computers and run them using Botnets, a term even the police officers in charge / admitted he was having to get his head around.

We executed warrants, we've spoken to Akill. He is assisting us with the inquiries. He hasn't been charged we thought fit to release the nature of this inquiry at this stage but the inquiries are ongoing we've got to analyze computer equipment which we have seized.

The 18-year-old comes from New Zealand’s north island, the town of Hamilton and he is allegedly the bot master. His arrest follows an investigation by the FBI Operation Bot Roast II, in which 8 people have so far been indicted, pleaded guilty or convicted. The Dutch also set their sides on Akill and contacted the New Zealand police.

So what is a Botnet? It’s a global network of hijacked PCs. The malicious software acts as a virus installing itself on computers around the world. Once it’s in / , it communicates with the central location. The individual computer effectively becomes a zombie which allows hackers to collect people’s personal bank details, credit card numbers and login names.\

The key thing is to get anti-virus software updated continually. It used to be the case that people send out antivirus update every year or every month. Now it's, you really got to do it everyday to ensure that you've got at least a measure of protection.

Akill allegedly invented complex software that invaded computer's spyware systems. He's said to be cooperating with the police but if he is charged and convicted , / could face 10 years in prison.

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