The Dutch police have arrested three men who are suspected to have set up a botnet of more than 100 000 computers worldwide. The prime suspect is 19 years old, the others are 22 and 27 years old. The botnet was used to steal confidential information such as creditcard and banking data as well as conduct DDoS attacks. Its also likely that they were making malware which can spy on login info for online banking, for which they were paid to do so. More arrests are likely to follow.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/maintainers-of-100-000-computer-botnet-arrested/30067/