CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack

m4dm4n wrote to mention a story running on The Register which describes a coordinated malware attack designed to establish a massive botnet. From the article: "The attack involves three different Trojans - Glieder, Fantibag and Mitglieder - in a co-ordinated assault designed to establish a huge botnet under the control of hackers. Computer Associates reckons that access to the compromised PCs is for sale on a black market, at prices as low as five cents per PC."

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[HurricaneDitka]

I, for one, salute our massive botnet overlords.

Re:The fundamental problem

[Thaelon]

I agree that users should be responsible and it should be the ISP's responsibility to enforce that responsibility but....

It's not "boxen", it's not "virii".

It's "boxes" and "viruses".

Stop contributing the stupidification of the world. (please note the irony)