tipo Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 The man arrested in Armenia last week for allegedly operating the massive “Bredolab” botnet — a network of some 30 million hacked Microsoft Windows PCs that were rented out to cyber crooks — appears to have generated much of his clientele as an affiliate of Spamit.com, the global spamming operation whose members are blamed for sending a majority of the world’s pharmaceutical spam.Armenian authorities arrested 27-year-old Georg Avanesov on suspicion of being the curator of Bredolab, a botnet that infected an estimated 3 million PCs per month through virus-laden e-mails and booby-trapped Web sites. The arrest resulted from a joint investigation between Armenian police and cyber sleuths in the Netherlands, whose ISPs were home to at least 143 servers used to direct the botnet’s activities. In tandem with the arrest and the unplugging of those servers, Dutch service providers began redirecting local Internet users to a disinfection and cleanup page if their PCs showed signs of Bredolab infections.original article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 I would LMFAO if we found out that the 10 mil downloads of IE9 beta came from bots ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipo Posted November 1, 2010 Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 :)) interested in stealing the world? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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