An Australian has been charged with infecting 3000 computers worldwide with viruses designed to capture banking details. The 20-year-old from Adelaide is also suspected of having developed software capable of launching virus attacks on 74,000 computers worldwide.

Police believe the arrest of the man has given them intelligence likely to lead to further offenders. The man was arrested after a three-month investigation by electronic crime sections of South Australian Police and the Australian Federal Police.

"It will be alleged that the arrested man unlawfully compromised over 3,000 computers throughout Australia and worldwide by infecting those computers with malicious software," SA Police said in a statement. The software was designed to "capture banking credentials and credit card information from compromised machines", the statement said.

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