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More information was released on the arrest of a Slovenian hacker suspected of developing a code behind the Mariposa botnet. The 23-year old suspect is known only by his hacker nickname Iserdo. He was arrested in Maribor, Slovenia 10 days ago. Five months earlier Spanish police arrested three suspects who alleged used the Mariposa code to create a 12 million botnet.

Iserdo was arrested alongside with two other suspects in Slovenia as part of a joint FBI-Slovenian investigation that has since focused on the 23-year-old.

As it became known, Spanish authorities eliminated the world's largest botnets infiltrated more than half of the Fortune 1000 companies, having arrested three of the ringleaders of the the botnet, named Mariposa.

The alleged haven’t been identified by name, but they're described as Spanish citizens with no criminal records whose internet names and ages were "netkairo," 31; "jonyloleante," 30; and "ostiator," 25.

A court in Azerbaijan sentenced two opposition bloggers to jail terms Wednesday in a case that has stirred international concern over freedom of expression in the oil-producing Caspian Sea state.

Adnan Hajizade, 26, was sentenced to two years in prison and Emin Milli, 30, to two years and six months over an incident in a cafe in Baku, a member of their defense team told Reuters.

According to the Reuters’ report, on Thursday the FBI arrested chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt in the $8 billion Stanford Financial Group fraud investigation.

The federal criminal inquire started in June 2008. The U.S. Justice Department announced that Pendergest-Holt was to make an initial court appearance before a U.S. magistrate in Houston on Friday after her arrest by FBI agents.