26 oktober 2010 - Landelijk Parket
At the request of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, Armenian police arrested the probable mastermind behind the criminal Bredolab botnet network at the international airport in Yerevan today. The network was taken down Monday by the Dutch High Crime Tech Team (THTC). Bredolab botnets are utilized by criminals worldwide to distribute spam and viruses.
During the takedown of the Bredolab network at a Dutch hosting provider, the suspect made several attempts to take back control of the botnet. When his efforts failed, he made a massive attack with 220,000 infected computers on the hosting provider. This attack, called DDoS, was terminated after three computer servers in Paris used by the suspect were disconnected from the internet.
More than 100,000 computer users have been warned that their computers are part of the botnet. The High Crime Tech Team has already received 55 responses from users whose computers were compromised.