On 25 October 2010, the Dutch police force’s Cybercrime Department announced the shutdown of 143 Bredolab botnet control servers. The next day at Armenia’s Yerevan international airport, one of those formerly responsible for running the botnet was arrested. While it is certainly possible that this marked the end of Bredolab, the technologies behind it remain and can, unfortunately, still be used to create new botnets. Malicious programs from the Backdoor.Win32.Bredolab family were first dete...