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BRAIN BEHIND BREDOLAB BOTNET ARRESTED
Radio Netherlands
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/brain-behind-bredolab-botnet-arrested
Oct 26 2010
A 27-year-old Armenian has been arrested in connection with
the Bredolab criminal computer network dismantled by the Dutch
investigators on Monday. He was detained at Armenia's Yerevan Airport
at the request of the Dutch Public Prosecution Office, and is thought
to be the brain behind the network.
A special team of investigators the High Tech Crime Team dismantled
the network known as Bredolab. Bredolab is a so-called botnet, which
has infected at least 30 million computers throughout the world since
July 2009.
The High Tech Crime Team - acting in cooperation with a Dutch web
hosting company, the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI), Dutch internet
security organisation GOVCERT.NL (the official Dutch computer emergency
response team) and IT security company Fox.It - seized 143 infected
computer servers and disconnected them from the internet, according
to the Public Prosecution Office's own report on its website.
The Armenian had since tried to regain control of the botnet. When
this failed he launched an attack using 220,000 infected compters
on the system of the web-hosting company. This too was thwarted by
disconnecting three computer servers in Paris from the internet.
The computer servers used by Bredolab were hired in the Netherlands
from Leaseweb, the country's biggest web-hosting company. Leaseweb
gave its full cooperation to the investigation.
Bredolab is also the name of so-called Trojan (horse), a virus which
enters computers unnoticed and allows other harmful software (malware)
to be downloaded. The cybercriminal or criminals have used Bredolab
to steal financial data and passwords. It has also been used to spy
on the computer's activities and record keystrokes.
Owners of infected computers will receive a notice next time they
start up their computers that their hardware is infected. They will
also be given information about how to get rid of the virus. So far
some 100,000 computer owners have been informed and 55 of them have
reported that their hardware is infected.
From: A. Papazian
Radio Netherlands
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/brain-behind-bredolab-botnet-arrested
Oct 26 2010
A 27-year-old Armenian has been arrested in connection with
the Bredolab criminal computer network dismantled by the Dutch
investigators on Monday. He was detained at Armenia's Yerevan Airport
at the request of the Dutch Public Prosecution Office, and is thought
to be the brain behind the network.
A special team of investigators the High Tech Crime Team dismantled
the network known as Bredolab. Bredolab is a so-called botnet, which
has infected at least 30 million computers throughout the world since
July 2009.
The High Tech Crime Team - acting in cooperation with a Dutch web
hosting company, the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI), Dutch internet
security organisation GOVCERT.NL (the official Dutch computer emergency
response team) and IT security company Fox.It - seized 143 infected
computer servers and disconnected them from the internet, according
to the Public Prosecution Office's own report on its website.
The Armenian had since tried to regain control of the botnet. When
this failed he launched an attack using 220,000 infected compters
on the system of the web-hosting company. This too was thwarted by
disconnecting three computer servers in Paris from the internet.
The computer servers used by Bredolab were hired in the Netherlands
from Leaseweb, the country's biggest web-hosting company. Leaseweb
gave its full cooperation to the investigation.
Bredolab is also the name of so-called Trojan (horse), a virus which
enters computers unnoticed and allows other harmful software (malware)
to be downloaded. The cybercriminal or criminals have used Bredolab
to steal financial data and passwords. It has also been used to spy
on the computer's activities and record keystrokes.
Owners of infected computers will receive a notice next time they
start up their computers that their hardware is infected. They will
also be given information about how to get rid of the virus. So far
some 100,000 computer owners have been informed and 55 of them have
reported that their hardware is infected.
From: A. Papazian