The End for Mariposa Botnet

     Last week, it was announced in Washington that the possible creators of the ever famous botnet, Mariposa Botnet, was caught at Slovenia.

     As almost everyone in the info-sec firm knows, Mariposa Botnet is one (if not the) of the biggest botnet ever; connecting over 12 million zombie computers. The three prosecuted operators last February, who controlled over 12 million zombies, were not actually the creators of Mariposa. It was stated that they only bought the botnet and just continued its daily maintenance. Now after 3 months of search, the FBI in coordination with the Spanish and Slovenian police has caught its perpetual creator, a man shortly known as "Iserdo"

     Mariposa botnet is capable of stealing crucial information such as credit card and bank accounts, distributing viruses (of course) to its infected computers and performing DDoS to servers. Its discovery up to its breakdown, including its creator, is an epic event in the IT industry, and will never be forgotten. I wonder which of the still-lurking botnets are going to be revealed next?