Spain smashes infected global computer network

[Hot Mega]

Sounds like Vette Nation....just kidding haha.

I **** fucking hackers!!!

MADRID (AFP) – Spanish police said Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.

The "botnet" of infected computers affected machines in almost every country in the world in homes, universities, banks, government agencies and companies, including more than half of the largest US companies on the Fortune 1,000 list.
It was designed to steal credit card data, online banking passwords, account information for social networking sites and other sensitive information.

"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 authorities provided no estimate for how much money could have been stolen from owners of infected computers but security experts said removing the virus from the affected PCs could cost tens of millions of dollars.

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[The Grasshopper]

I wonder if these were those guys that sent out a virus in late 2007 and on April fools day the next year. Whoever those fellas were were alleged to control approximately 28% of worldwide infected cpu's at the time, if I remember right.