This isn't really anything new. skiddies and maybe higher level crackers have been making clusters of networked owned machines for years. I'm sure we've all heard of ddos attacks... Looks like some cracker became enlightened to the profitable possibilities of their owned machines. Does anyone really care about organized crime these days? oh no! the mafia wants to pirate my computer to run their online casino.

There are legit companies that pay home computer users to do mundane tasks like spidering the internet to find websites for search engines. There are also companies that pay users with high-speed internet access for planned ddos attacks to test a company's network.

To show you I'm not full of crap: http://www.capcal.com/ click "agent program" at the top menu.