Exciting news. The Mounties have arrested seventeen people in connection with botnets:

Although the hackers operated from about a dozen towns all over Quebec, their botnet network was international in scope, infecting 39,000 computers in Poland, 28,000 in Brazil, and 26,000 in Mexico– the top three countries affected by the group. In all, they hacked into more than 100,000 computers in 100 countries.

Suspiciously round numbers, but nonetheless a good read.