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Bredolab Botnet Taken Down
Leon Buijs writes "Monday a 27-year-old Armenian was arrested at request of the Dutch authorities. The Dutch police think he is the brain behind the infamous, 30 million infected computers large Bredolab network, that was taken down by their Team (in Dutch) High Crime. Bredolab was used to spread virii and spam via the Netherlands. While taking the botnet down at a Dutch ISP, the suspect did several attempts to regain control. When this didn't work out, he did a DDoS attack on the ISP's servers using a 220,000 computers botnet. However, this was also broken off by taking 3 servers offline that the Armanian used for this, in Paris."
"Infected machines remain pox-ridden but the command system associated with the cybercrime network has been decapitated, following an operation led by hi-tech police in The Netherlands."
I would say the Dutch police are getting ahead of the cyber-criminals.
That guy should know that botnets are not the way to get ahead in life.
It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong, he'll never be the head of a major corporation.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
...there is no such word as 'virii'.
We know... but we keep using it because we know it pisses you off.
I saw "Armanian" and all I could think of to post were jokes involving his lawyers filing expensive suits.
as an Armenian, i say we coin the word ARMANIA, and define it as "aa condition of women who love those nurturing income-producing, middle-eastern christian guys". I need to meet some hot women who have "armania"
No, some are still mad at each other.
Using "virii" (or the equivalently stupid "boxen") in any context just makes you look like a pretentious dolt.
And complaining with the amount of vitroil you're dedicating to it about people using those words doesn't?
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
..no they looked for ET!
Franck Martin
Avonsys
Hamstring him, dip him in gravy and drop him in a pit filled with starving chihuahuas. Of course if he were a SPAMMER we would need to consider something harsh.
as an Armenian, i say we coin the word ARMANIA, and define it as...
Unfortunately, the word is already understood to mean, "the sweeping trend to compulsively talk like a pirate".
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
It's nearest synonym in English is "slime" or "pus", or the noun sense of "ooze", but we use it for "microphage", giving it countability. Like "water" or "blue" have no true plural in English
Nonsense!!
water => waterii
blue => blii
slime => slimii
puss =>pusii
ooze => oiiii!
Now, please add them to your dictionary.
Don't look now, but I think those hosts got infected with artificial intelligence bots that connect to tech news sites and bicker about word usage and validity.