Botnet of a half-million computers taken offline

Europol, the FBI and several European police units took a massive botnet network offline. According to the broadcaster, the German police launched an investigation into the network four years ago after a large number of computers were infected in Germany. Criminals used the botnet to spread 20 different malicious software, mostly aimed at looting bank accounts. The Dutch police are still investigating Dutch suspects as well as "money mules" - people who made their bank accounts available to criminals, who receive and send money through those accounts.