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Botnet Mafia in Online Turf War

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-them-an-offer-they-can't-refuse dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The kind of turf war seen in the real world by drug gangs is being replicated by the criminal gangs behind spamming botnets, and things are turning nasty."

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  1. Somehow... by s_p_oneil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think this would make an exciting movie.

    1. Re:Somehow... by arivanov · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Exactly.

      It is not news yet. It will be news when it hits the streets and DDOS will be supplemented by luparas at dawn. The e-organised crime and the real crime appear to be merging more and more so one day this will happen. In fact it may already be happening, but in places where one more or one less dead body does not make anybody notice. After all on the streets of St Petersburg "Zhizn cena kopeika" as it is (and has always been).

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