Re: Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM, William Pitcock
<nenolod () systeminplace net> 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?

Nothing. Good point. :-)

- - ferg

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