180solutions helps track down Dutch botnet crime ring?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

El Bizzaro.

Via NewsFactor Network.

[snip]

Internet advertising software provider 180solutions, the target of an extortion scheme, is working with the U.S. 
Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down a botnet crime ring based in the Netherlands.

The Bellevue, Washington-based company said that in October, Dutch police arrested three suspects accused of operating 
a network of 1.5 million infected zomibie PCs worldwide, and that this network was used to steal personal information 
and launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against 180solutions in an effort to extort money.

Company spokesperson Sean Sundwall said 180solutions began tracking a distributor of it software, which runs a gaming 
site based in the Netherlands, after noticing a sharp spike in the number of installations from that site.

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http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=39100

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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