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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. Computer Crime by sc0p3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reallllly news worthy material?? $430/day could be earnt through a legitimate high end wage(157k/year). Normally the saying "crime pays" refers to paying more then you could earn otherwise. If he'd go back to school could probably do better then that.

    How much would a dope dealer earn in a year?