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Zombies Blend In With Regular Web Traffic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the damn-dirty-zombies dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hackers controlling farms of zombie computers are now trying to blend in with web traffic, News.com reports. Instead of traditional IRC controls, many zombie farms are moving to simple web-based control schemes, which makes them harder to track down." From the article: "The change in tactics makes it harder to identify zombies on a network, and it becomes tougher for security professionals to use the hackers' own tools to spy on them. In addition, the switch to Web-based control increases the threat of zombies to enterprises and other organizations, as that method can't be blocked as easily as the previous technique."

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  1. brains by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Zombies Blend In With Regular Web Traffic

    But how do you differentiate the zombies from your standard brain-dead AOL users?

    I guess either way, you should just aim for the head.

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    1. Re:brains by OakDragon · · Score: 3, Funny
      But how do you differentiate the zombies from your standard brain-dead AOL users?

      You never find them together. Why? Zombies like braaaaaains...

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    2. Re:brains by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, I think AOL is the prefered internet provider for actual zombies:

      17556639 how to kill your wife
      17556639 how to kill your wife
      17556639 wife killer
      17556639 how to kill a wife
      17556639 poop
      17556639 dead people
      17556639 pictures of dead people
      17556639 killed people
      17556639 dead pictures
      17556639 dead pictures
      17556639 dead pictures
      17556639 murder photo

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    3. Re:brains by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't post Hans Reiser's search logs, you insensitive clod!

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    4. Re:brains by dr.badass · · Score: 5, Funny

      17556639 poop

      Actually, I think that's just a regular AOL user. I think a more likely zombie is user #17293141:

      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains
      17293141 brains

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    5. Re:brains by SeaFox · · Score: 3, Funny
      I guess either way, you should just aim for the head.

      What good will that do? In both cases the bullet will just fly through a big empty space.
  2. So then...? by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hackers controlling farms of zombie computers are now trying to blend in with web traffic"

    If you really want to blend in, send out your Zombie commands via Myspace profiles. :) That'll look like normal web-traffic.

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  3. Are you kidding?! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see zombies hanging out at the local Starbucks all the time trying to blend in. The only thing that blends is their coffee.

    1. Re:Are you kidding?! by IflyRC · · Score: 1, Funny

      Are you sure you aren't confusing zombies with the wanna-be vampire goth crowd?

  4. Easy to tell... by mohjlir · · Score: 5, Funny

    But how do you differentiate the zombies from your standard brain-dead AOL users?

    Zombies have hopes, dreams and ambitions.

    1. Re:Easy to tell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      And they smell somewhat less like decomposing meat.

    2. Re:Easy to tell... by Woldry · · Score: 3, Funny

      I read that first as "herpes, dreams, and ambitions." I must be tired.

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  5. The Zombie Surivial Guide by Raynor · · Score: 5, Funny
    You don't need to reload a melee weapon!

    Nowhere is safe; only safer.

    One zombie can make the world zombie.

    Anyone who isn't prepared is a burden to you; only help those who can help themselves.

    Always be prepared for zombies.
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  6. Zombies blend in with Traffic? by R2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ooops, missed the "web" part. Was picturing the undead in the car next to me in the morning commute.

    For that matter, with the way we all look and act in the AM, no one would recognize a real zombie if it reared up and bit you on the brain.

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  7. Obligatory karma loss by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our new undead overlords?

    1. Re:Obligatory karma loss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Why the fuck do you humorless idiots keep rating these tired old jokes as funny?

  8. Re:Zombie spambots are attacking my site as we spe by John.P.Jones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really what do you expect? When you post a direct link to your website like that machines can easilly harvest it and add it to their zombie spambot lists... Really you should type it out like this so only a human can parse it...

    crazyguyonabike dot com

    Gotta stay one step ahead of the spammers. :)

  9. Well, duh. by dangitman · · Score: 1, Funny

    The zombies are the ones screaming "BRRAAAAAAAIIIIINNNS!"

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  10. Re:Google? by alx5000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or they could use MS Live Search, using specially chosen keywords to search for last month's encrypted instructions...

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  11. Attention my lovely zombie army #5yd7a8 by metamatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    at 19:00 target1.sh
    at 19:30 target2.sh
    at 23:00 spam.sh

    Move along humans, nothing to see here.

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  12. Aheh by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Soooo was it really that smart to post a newstory with a headline like that so close to Hollaween?

    I'm guessing not - with my big juicy tasty brain dripping with brainy goodness.

    Come and get it!