Spain busts the Mariposa botnet owners

[wahnula]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/0 ... llion-pcs/

...and other articles 'round the net, search for "Panda security" should pop them up.

[tex.writer]

The extent of this is stunning.

Be careful which news links you click-on. Black-hat seo is already using this as lure to malicious sites.

Defence Intelligence is a Canadian security firm involved in exposing and shutting down the botnet and was target of a ddos attack when they first attempted to shut-down the botnet in December 2009.
The Defence Intelligence blog is here:
http://defintel.blogspot.com/

Their initial September 2009 blog exposing Mariposa:
"Half of Fortune 100 Companies Compromised by New Information Stealing Trojan"
http://defintel.blogspot.com/2009/09/ha ... anies.html

Symantec followed up the Defence Intelligence research with some informative blog posts of their own which can be found beginning here:
"Jailing the Butterfly", http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/jailing-butterfly

[meep]

Good story here. I hadn't heard of the Mariposa (butterfly in Spanish) botnet.

[AlphaCentauri]

The Associated Press also covered the story:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD9E6MCO80