Another set of bothearder arrests have been made. What's interesting here is that if the story is accurate, the Dutch pair are being held under European authority, which the Brazilian is being extradited to face US charges.
From The Register:
Dutch police have arrested two Dutch brothers suspected of running a botnet controlling 40,000 to 100,000 computers, with only a small portion (1,100 computers) based in the Netherlands.
The FBI has been investigating this case for a while before contacting the Dutch authorities. The arrests were made shortly after the two young bot-herders from the Frisian town of Sneek sold their network of compromised machines to a person in Brazil for €25,000 on Tuesday. The 35-year-old Brazilian man from Taubate (near Rio de Janeiro) has also been arrested and is awaiting extradition to the US. [From Dutch botnet herders arrested | The Register]
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