Dutch zombie net busted
p2p news / p2pnet: Three Dutch hackers used a variation of the “W32.Toxbot” worm to set up a zombie net tapping 1.5 million computers so they could steal credit card and other data, says the Associated Press.
Two of them are accused threatening a US company with a “denial of service” attack.
A court in the town of Breda extended the custody of the 19-year-old main suspect and a 22-year-old accomplice for a month Thursday, and ordered the release of the third, aged 27, pending trial, AP has prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin saying.
The existence of the `zombie network; of infected computers was first detected by Dutch Internet provider XS4ALL, it says, adding:
About 30,000 of the infected computers were in the Netherlands. When investigators dismantled the global network, they found more than 15 times the number of infected computers they originally estimated.
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Associated Press – Dutch say suspects hacked 1.5M computers, October 20, 2005
