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Dutch botnet masters arrested

Two brothers suspected of assembling a botnet of between 40,000 and 100,000 zombies have been arrested by the Dutch police. The younger brother was only a 16 years old, while the older brother is 19. Apparently, the FBI have been investigation the brothers for a while before contacting the Dutch authorities about it. The brothers were arrested after a transaction in which control of the botnet was sold to a 35-year-old man in Brazil for a cool €25,000. The purchaser is now awaiting extradition to the United States. It is not known what the man intended to use the botnet for.

To read up more on this story:
- check out this article from The Register

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