Top Botnets Control One Million Hijacked Computers
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| Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax
| and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet
| researcher said today as he released the results of his census of the various
| armies of hacked computers that spew spam.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144359-pg,1/article.html
Kraken stripped of World's Largest Botnet crown (maybe)
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| He counts Srizbi as the biggest spam botnet, with about 315,000 infected
| machines. Rustock and Cutwail and Storm are third, fourth and fifth, with
| 150,000 zombies and 125,000 zombies and 85,000 zombies respectively.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/kraken_disagreement/
Recent:
New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring
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| Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a
| network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions
| of dollars from victims' bank accounts.
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http://news.smh.com.au/new-zealand-teenager-convicted-over-international-cyber-crime-ring/20080301-1vzs.html
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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