Global Botnet Smashed

Posted by admin on 6/Mar/2010 in Security Alert Log | 0 comments

Following up on the article link we published a few days ago “Three Spaniards Suspected Of Infecting 13 Million Computers Arrested In Spain” here is a link to a follow up article published on Australian IT.

Here is an excerpt from the follow up article,

SPANISH police said they had arrested three men suspected of building the world’s biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.

“This is the biggest network of zombie computers ever discovered,” the head of a Spanish police unit specialised in tech crimes, Jose Antonio Berrocal, told a Madrid news conference, using the term for PCs that can be controlled remotely by outsiders.

The “botnet” network was shut down at the end of December in a joint operation carried out by Spanish police, the FBI and two private information security firms, Canada’s Defence Intelligence and Spain’s Panda Security.

Spanish police said it was so big it could have been used to “carry out a cyberterrorism attack which would be much greater than those staged against Estonia or Georgia.”