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Re: FBI Cracks Down (Again) on Zombie Computer Armies
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:20:01 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded from: Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle (at) gmail.com> On Nov 30, 2007 4:14 AM, InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> wrote:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/fbi-cracks-down.html By Ryan Singel Wired.com - Threat Level November 29, 2007 The FBI announced Thursday it had indicted or successfully prosecuted eight individuals in a crack down on black hat hackers who use armies of zombie computers to commit financial fraud, attack web sites with floods of traffic and send spam. The crimes at issue involved more than $20 million in losses, according to the FBI
Once again: Taking down the army of a botmaster of millions without disabling the botnet just makes sure the treasures of bot-armies past will be handed down to the next script kiddie in line. Even though the first attempt at this was bungled by a child not experienced in matters failed, I think its worth another shot to send an "update your security and uninstall" final release before just leaving these willing combatants to another "dick-tater", as long as the software the FBi/NSA/SGC is audited by the open sores community.. -JP __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
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