Quebec Provincial Police made arrests on Wednesday breaking up a hacking ring that is said to be responsible for $45 million in damages to computer systems. The 17 arrested where from about a dozen different communities and included 3 minors. According to this InfoWorld article, the ring installed "botnet" software on unsuspecting victims' computers in order to run phishing and spamming operations, said Capt. Frederick Gaudreau, of the Surete du Quebec. The botnet network infected 39,000 computers in Poland, 28,000 in Brazil, and 26,000 in Mexico, and over 100,000 computers in all were affected. I'm curious... why Poland, Brazil, and Mexico? Were the hackers of Spanish and Polish decent or did they acquire e-mail addresses from these countries? Did they create websites that would be of interest to people who come from these countries?
