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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.'"
Your an idiot. That being said upfront. What are you going to say about yourself when your machine is zombied by someone that finds a hack that you and your antivirus company doesn't know about yet. Will you call yourself a loser, will you call for your own dismantling. Its not a question if but when.
And one of the major reasons this happens is that people like you feel that the person mugged is at fault for being mugged. Get real! Someone who finds a way to steal someones CPU for any reason is a bad person. They should be caught and punished, its theft and often time distruction of personal property. That is not acceptable behaviour, nor is calling the people who are the victims Lusers acceptable behaviour.
Now go to the corner and stay there for a 5 minute timeout.