Suspects Caught by Infected Computers

In San Francisco, three internet suspects were arrested in one of the world's biggest networks of botnets. Botnets are networks of infected computers that have been stolen and when put together hold a lot of information. With this arrest, authorities found a database of stolen credit cards and online banking credentials from at least 12.7 millioned infected PCs. The three people that were in charge of this botnet are just the beginning. They believe that there are more in other countries including Spain. What gave away these suspects was that they "accidentally" cooperated with investigators by using certain internet services. "It turned out that the botnet runners had infected computers by instant-messaging malicious links to contacts on infected computers." The computers included in this bust were those from Fortune 1,000 companies and major banks.