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Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-maybe-don't-do-that dept.

DigitumDei writes "Dutch police has nabbed 3 men (aged 19,22, & 27) who alledgedly used the toxbot trojan to create a botnet of over 100000 machines. The trio conducted a DDOS attack against an unnamed US company in an extortion attempt, as well as using phishing tactics to hijack PayPal and eBay accounts. From the article: 'Police seized computers, cash, a sports car, and bank accounts at the three men's residences, and additional arrests are expected. The three were to be taken before a magistrate in Breda, a city approximately 25 miles south of Rotterdam, on Friday. The botnet was dismantled, prosecutors said, with help from the Dutch National High Tech Crime Center; GOVCERT.NL, the Netherlands' Computer Emergency Response Team; and several Internet service providers, including the Amsterdam-based XS4ALL.'"

11 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. Extortion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dat's a nice website ya got dere. SHAME if sumtin happened to it.

    /Godfather music in background

  2. a botnet of over 100000 machines by wiredog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hereby declare a new metric for measuring the size of botnets: The MegaBot. 1 MegaBot==10E6 Bots.

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    1. Re:a botnet of over 100000 machines by mustafap · · Score: 5, Funny

      >1 MegaBot==10E6 Bots.

      No no no no no. How many times to we have to tell you?

      1MegaBot == 1024*1024 bots.

      Dammed marketing bots.

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    2. Re:a botnet of over 100000 machines by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny
      No no no no no. How many times to we have to tell you?
      1MegaBot == 1024*1024 bots.

      No!! You're talking about a MebiBot!

      // Random Mebi Enforcement Zealot

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  3. Wow. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    A city-wide Thieves Guild is understandable, but a National Crime Center is just going too far.

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  4. mmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the creators of the slashdot network are still at large tho :)

  5. About time by dow · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get so many of these zombie machines trying things everyday and never hear about anyone getting caught. Hope they get sentenced to ten years of Windows XP.

    1. Re:About time by mindaktiviti · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because we all know that 10 years of WinME would result in cruel and unusual punishment, even for them.

  6. Why? by AAeyers · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...who alledgedly used the toxbot trojan to create a botnet of over 100000 machines.

    It seems a little harsh to get arrested for only infecting 32 machines.....

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    1. Re:Why? by Filip22012005 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're thinking of a bitnet.

      Related concepts: the batnet and the butnet.

      And then, there's also the botnut (three of which got arrested), the bitnut (such as yourself), the butnut (erm...), the botknit (a network of 100000 computers strung together by my grandma), the botNAT, and the bitenight (Buffy the movie).

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