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Over a Million Zombie PCs
Doyle writes "A BBC article discusses new research revealing that over 1 million computers have been compromised and are being used in bot nets. From the article: 'The largest network spied on by the team was made up of 50,000 hijacked home computers.'"
From honeypot FAQ:
8. Do you prosecute the people that compromise systems within the Honeynet? No. The prime directive of the Honeynet Project is research and to share those lessons learn. It is not our goal to catch and prosecure blackhats. We do forward information about compromised systems to CERT so CERT can notify admins of compromised systems. We limit our contact with authorities only when the Project feels there is a critical need. If we were to become involved in a major legal case everytime a system was compromised, we would not have time for research, let alone our real jobs.
read more about honeypot here. It seems they probably could, but are not going to.
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
Do you find that blocking machines with lots of simultaneous connections causes problems with bittorrent clients? (Or is that an intended side effect? :) )
No, I think most legitimate traffic is under 5000 simultaneous connections =). When we see a machine with 10,000 , 20,000 , 30,000 (which has been detected). We know there's a problem =)
When they're up, they're very entertaining.
An older spammer forum, SpecialHam.com is back up. With banner ads, even. "DarkMailer - not for newbies". "Blackbox Hosting - bulletproof hosting options" "SendSafe - bulk mail has never been this easy". "Bulkhost.com - the leader in bulk-friendly e-mail hosting".
Sites like these are where the hackers and spammers meet, find deals, and scream about being ripped off by each other. The actual deals tend to take place on ICQ.