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Botnet Business Model Comes to Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watch-the-little-buggers-multiply dept.

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."

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  1. You know...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU should go through school with a buut so huge, that it looks like it not even part of your body.....

    JUSES, My 'nickname' in high school was "Large Anal Bucky"

    it hurts......

  2. suggestion for a safe Windows Expirience by RobertLTux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When doing your build follow the following procedure

    1 install Autopatcher latest
    2 install some sort of firewall (disable the Windows firewall)
    3 install an antivirus program (freebie or paid does not matter)
    4 take a machette to the startup programs list

    5 install your broadband connection
    6 connect the system to your router
    comments

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    Any person using FTFY or editing my postings agrees to a US$50.00 charge
  3. Re:430 bucks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for replying to a non-related post. This proves:

    A) You are too dumb to realizes how to reply to the article summary itself,
    B) You are a karma whore.
    or
    C) Both

    Thanks. Have a nice day.