Botnet farmers play the international exchange game
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| Selling "installs" is a common practice in the cyber-underworld, the most
| notable example being in 2005 when Jeanson Ancheta was arrested for building
| a 400,000-strong botnet and installing adware from 180 solutions for a fee of
| $60,000.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/botnet_spyware_scam/
DSL Reports back up after DDoS attack
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| At least 1,100 bot-infested machines took part in the assault, which at one
| point directed nearly 48MBps of malicious data at the site.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/dslreports_under_ddos_attack/
4 out of 10 WinTrolls in this newsgroup are 0wned, statistically speaking. They
probably don't even know about it. That's how horrific Windows is.
Recent:
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
Related:
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort
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| The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
| worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
| infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
| system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
| trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
| make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
| these threats.
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http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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