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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Fergie wrote: > Hey, I'm just the messenger... > > [snip] > > Cyber criminals are assembling the biggest botnet for over two years > already close to a million PCs online security experts have told > vnunet.com. > > No one knows yet exactly what nefarious activity the army of captive > PCs will be used for. But the chances are it will be a massive > onslaught of phishing aimed at defrauding web consumers in the run up > to Christmas. > > Botnets are distributed networks of zombie computers, usually > broadband-connected home PCs, recruited into criminal service, > unbeknown to their owners, by infection with a Trojan virus. > > Once assembled, a botnet is hired out, for example, to launch a > phishing attack of email messages to online banking customers intended > to dupe them into revealing their security details. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2167474/million-pc-botnet-threatens > > - ferg > > p.s. Confidence level: I won't even quote this on my blog. > > - ferg > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
