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Australian police have charged an as yet unnamed 20 year-old man on suspicion of creating a banking Trojan that infected an estimated 3,000 computers worldwide, as well as building up a 74,000 strong botnet of compromised machines. The name of the suspect will not be revealed until he faces magistrates in Adelaide, South …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    "drug and botnet herding charges"

    How the hell do you herd drugs? Fried^H^H^H^H^HInquiring minds want to know!

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    alleged perp also faces drug charges ..

    How about, they are bumping up the charges so as to excuse the time they have wasted on the case ... ?????

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @ AC 15:19

    By telling your pack of mules to step through the checkpoint?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Troll

    Whoa!

    "...developing "capabilities to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks with up to 74,000 computers world wide" "...

    I didn't know Australians were smart enough to use a computer.

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  5. TheOtherMe
    Pint

    Herding Drugs

    Maybe that was meant to be hoarding drugs...

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