Bredolab Botnet Taken Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:15AM from the nothing-else-happening-today dept.

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."

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Don't use made up words by nyctopterus · 2010-10-26 06:19 · Score: 4, Informative

In before everyone else: there is no such word as 'virii'.
1. Re:Don't use made up words by Quietust · 2010-10-26 06:21 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  For the benefit of people who mistakenly use it that way, the correct word is "viruses".
  
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2. Re:Don't use made up words by Arancaytar · 2010-10-26 06:23 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Armania concurs. :P
3. Re:Don't use made up words by zorg50 · 2010-10-26 06:33 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  On top of that, every sentence in the summary contains at least one grammatical error.