Police nab Shadow creators, force botnet to commit suicide

The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit has arrested a 19 year-old man and his 16 year-old brother and charged them with operating (and attempting to sell) the Shadow botnet. Shadow was created by the two brothers, and is currently thought to infect some 100,000 machines, down from a peak of 150,000. Shadow appears to have been mostly confined to the Netherlands, as the messages and phishing hooks were all sent in Dutch, but had apparently infected some US systems as well, as the FBI is credited for assisting on the case.