Canadian Police Slay Zombie Network With up to 1 Million Members

zekrahminator · Feb 22, 2008

In response to one of the largest hacking scams in the history of Canada, police from Quebec raided several homes across Quebec, and arrested 16 people, between the ages of 17 and 26. Their crimes, other than making a million zombies, include creating phishing sites that earned them a respectable kickback of $45 million CAD. Canadian authorities claim that these million computers were mainly in Poland, Brazil, Manitoba, and America. Government computers may have been compromised as well, but investigators will not disclose where those computers may have been. Regardless, many of these zombies are coming back from the brink, and it seems this crisis is, for the most part, contained.

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GSG-9 · Feb 22, 2008

interesting. 45cad... hmm...

hat · Feb 22, 2008

brains........... BRAINS........

Silverel · Feb 23, 2008

Wow, that's like 42 Million$ US.

I'm thinking there needs to be a North American standard currency, like Euros.

We could call them Dollars. And use this $ symbol to represent them! Woo!

Damn zombies. Damn them!

Solaris17 · Feb 23, 2008

WTF is a zombie?

[I.R.A]_FBi · Feb 23, 2008

i guess its like a bot network?

Solaris17 · Feb 23, 2008

like gnutella? though thats more p2p...so bot network as in they stole..usn pass? credit info...like spybots.

Mussels · Feb 23, 2008

zombies are a bot network - think something like F@H, but without user consent. Imagine a server farm, but its a virus spreading out the code to make the machines do the work... with a million PC's, brute password hacking is quite simple for example.

smartphone · Feb 23, 2008

newbs detected in this thread.
And btw, Canadian dollar is worth more than US dollar.

btarunr · Feb 23, 2008

*Shuts down Hamachi and brings up ZA*

I remember Craig's server was bashed by a botnet too. I just discovered a keylogger this week, something Spybot S&D didn't detect and Zone Alarm's built-in anti-spy did.

Mussels · Feb 23, 2008

smartphone said:
Canadian dollar is worth more than US dollar.

Since when??

V lyx · Feb 23, 2008

Mussels said:
Since when??

Saturday, February 23, 2008

1 US Dollar = 1.01226 Canadian Dollar

1 Canadian Dollar (CAD) = 0.98789 US Dollar (USD)

ShadowFold · Feb 23, 2008

I saw "Canadian Police Slay Zombie..." on the news tab and I about had a heart attack and loaded my guns... not kidding.

Silverel · Feb 23, 2008

CAD and USD have been fightin back and forth for months now. Pick a time of day and it'll flip. Ya'll should relax.

newconroer · Feb 24, 2008

Silverel said:
Wow, that's like 42 Million$ US.

I'm thinking there needs to be a North American standard currency, like Euros.

We could call them Dollars. And use this $ symbol to represent them! Woo!

Damn zombies. Damn them!

Mmmm ya, that'd be great for the economy. Yay bring on the NAU! ........

thoughtdisorder · Feb 24, 2008

ShadowFold said:
I saw "Canadian Police Slay Zombie..." on the news tab and I about had a heart attack and loaded my guns... not kidding.

Shadow, everyone knows guns won't stop zombies! The only way to stop zombies in their tracks is by putting on a Micheal Jackson album so they dance uncontrollably.

Random Murderer · Feb 24, 2008

thoughtdisorder said:
Shadow, everyone knows guns won't stop zombies! The only way to stop zombies in their tracks is by putting on a Micheal Jackson album so they dance uncontrollably.

Chewy · Feb 24, 2008

Dont make me break out my Zombie Bible.

thoughtdisorder · Feb 24, 2008

Random Murderer said:

Chewy said:
Dont make me break out my Zombie Bible.

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