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Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested
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.'"
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I bet you crack up every time you hear "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
In the USA we have a National Crime Center, too. It's Washington DC. Amazing how fast they can make billions disappear, no bots, no phishing.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Dino: Good morning, Colonel. ... you've got a nice DDoS army here, Colonel.
Colonel: Good morning gentlemen. Now what can I do for you.
Luigi: (looking round office casually) You've
Colonel: Yes.
Luigi: We wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
Colonel: What?
Dino: No, what my brother means is it would be a shame if... (he knocks something off mantel)
Colonel: Oh.
Dino: Oh sorry, Colonel.
Colonel: Well don't worry about that. But please do sit down.
Luigi: No, we prefer to stand, thank you, Colonel.
Colonel: All right. All right. But what do you want?
Dino: What do we want, ha ha ha.
Luigi: Ha ha ha, very good, Colonel.
Dino: The Colonel's a joker, Luigi.
Luigi: Explain it to the Colonel, Dino.
Dino: How many bots you got, Colonel?
Colonel: About 100000 altogether.
Luigi: A hundred thousand! Hey!
Dino: You ought to be careful, colonel.
Colonel: We are careful, extremely careful.
Dino: 'Cos things break, don't they?
Colonel: Break?
Luigi: Well everything breaks, don't it Colonel. (he breaks something on desk) Oh dear.
shame that didn't get moded as funny
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i got it at least
I suspect that the submitter is Dutch, which indicates that English isn't his first language.
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I can't believe nobody's said that yet!
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Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
You didn't get it did you?
I don't think any government actively goes after drug users, they go after the distributors. The only people who get charged with using drugs are the ones who are dumb enough to do it publically or get high and get in an accident.
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What the hell are you talking about?
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