Dutch smash 100,000-strong zombie army: DDoS attacks and eBay, Paypal fraud

[mandy]

Dutch police have arrested three people for building a worldwide zombie network of more than 100,000 PCs used to launch internet attacks on companies and to hack into bank and Paypal accounts...

The compromised PCs were hacked using a trojan horse, called W 32.Toxbot..

The suspects are also thought to have hacked into a "large number of PayPal and eBay accounts,..

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/07/...e_network/

[mandy]

The Dutch botnet was much larger than first thought: 1.5 million PCs were hacked.  Original estimates were only 100,000

Three suspected Dutch cybercriminals could face a stiffer penalty with new evidence that they hacked about 1.5 million PCs worldwide, more than 15 times the original estimate.

...The investigation also suggests that the suspects hacked into accounts at payment service PayPal and online auction giant eBay.

full article: http://news.zdnet.com/Dutch+'bot+herders'+may+have+controlled+1.5+million+PCs/2100-1009_22-5906896.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

[jezebel]

1.5 million PCs.  Scary shit.