Dutch prosecutors last month arrested three young men for creating and operating a botnet allegedly used to extort a US company, to steal PayPal and eBay accounts, and to install adware and spyware.荷蘭檢察官上個月逮捕了三名年輕男子為創建和經營殭屍網絡被用於勒索一家美國公司，竊取貝寶和易趣帳戶，並安裝廣告軟件和間諜軟件。

It turned out that the botnet was comprised of a staggering 1.5 million computers.原來這是該殭屍網絡組成，驚人的150萬電腦。

The three suspects, aged 19, 22, and 27, were arrested on charges of threatening a US firm with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.這三名嫌犯，年齡分別為19 ， 22 ，和27日，海關人員共拘捕，罪名是威脅美國的堅定與拒絕服務（ DoS ）攻擊。 They used phishing tactics to hijack PayPal and eBay accounts, then used them to pay for goods ordered on the Internet.他們利用釣魚式攻擊的戰術，劫持貝寶和易趣帳戶，然後利用他們來支付訂購的貨物在互聯網上。

They also may have written viruses for others, who paid the hackers to come up with tools for stealing online bank account usernames and passwords.他們還可能有書面病毒給別人，誰支付的黑客來與工具竊取在線銀行帳戶的用戶名和密碼。

The two younger men (19 year old being the leader) are still in custody but the 27-year-old has been released pending trial.兩個年輕男子（ 19歲的被領導人）仍然在羈押，但今年27歲已獲釋，等待審判。

They supposedly used the Toxbot/Codbot Trojan horse to infect the machines.他們假定使用toxbot / codbot特洛伊木馬病毒感染的機器。

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I wonder how many such botnets are still in existence.我不知道有多少這類殭屍網絡是仍然存在。 Botnets already made IP banning totally useless as a spam prevention tool.殭屍網絡已經取得的IP ，禁止完全沒有用處，作為垃圾郵件預防工具。