Re: Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On 2/22/10 5:17 PM, William Pitcock wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:21 +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
> > Last week Czech researchers released information on a new worm which
> > exploits CPE devices (broadband routers) by means such as default
> > passwords, constructing a large DDoS botnet. Today this story hit
> > international news.
>
> What makes this any different than psyb0t, which was discovered in the
> wild last year?

Absolutely nothing. I think it is mentioned in the PC World story 
though. Thanks for bringing it up.

        Gadi.

> William