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Re: Trojan of somesort - Update
From: Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:11:38 -0700 (PDT)
Must be quite a successful franchise, or otherwise hackers wouldn't hack so many machines at once. :p
Watching these things, it's pretty clear that there really aren't any "hackers" involved. After all, it doesn't take much more than a script kiddie running automated tools to find systems w/ weak passwords, or FTP sites that allow the anonymous user to write to the drive. And with regards to breaking into multiple machines and franchising, there have been stories in the media recently about people who create and sell botnets. So people are making money by selling huge networks of hundreds or thousands of infected systems to spammers, etc.
Current thread:
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Bob the Builder (May 27)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Paul Schmehl (May 27)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Pho Man (May 27)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Harlan Carvey (May 27)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Harlan Carvey (May 27)
- RE: Trojan of somesort - Update James C Slora Jr (May 28)
- RE: Trojan of somesort - Update Harlan Carvey (May 28)
- RE: Trojan of somesort - Update James C Slora Jr (May 29)
- RE: Trojan of somesort - Update Harlan Carvey (May 28)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Pho Man (May 27)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Gadi Evron (May 28)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Paul Schmehl (May 27)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Paul Schmehl (May 28)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Harlan Carvey (May 28)
- Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Gadi Evron (May 28)
- Changing file times, was -> Re: Trojan of somesort - Update Harlan Carvey (May 28)