Botnet Business Model Comes to Life

consumerist writes "Researchers at the German Honeynet Project have discovered that a malicious hacker earned about $430 in a single day installing spyware on computers in the latest Windows worm attack. Within 24 hours, the IRC-controlled botnet hijacked more than 7,700 machines via the Windows Server Service vulnerability (MS06-040) and hosed the infected computers with the spyware from DollarRevenue. The botnet operator made between a penny and 30 cents for every piece of spyware installed. Add that to the spam rental and DDoS extortion money and we have a booming business."

Comments

$430 is not very good

[Anonymous Coward]

For a ciminal $430/day is not very good.

Re:Most bots are not resource hogs

[Jackmn]

I work for an anti-virus company. We use virii, thank you very much.

What company would that be? I'll be sure to avoid them, along with any other company that assists in butchering the English language.