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FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the notification-flagged-as-spam-and-deleted dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has released the findings of their recent botnet study and have identified over 1 million botnet crime victims. "The FBI is working with industry partners, including the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI. Through this process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a statement.Bots are widely recognized as one of the top scourges of the industry. Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"

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  1. Skip the spammy site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    and go straight to the source
    http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/botnet06130 7.htm

  2. Re:And here come the phishers.... by yuna49 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wouldn't get too far in our mail system. We don't accept mail with From addresses in fbi.gov or irs.gov unless they originate on those agencies own servers. Mail coming from a server in rr.com claiming to be "From: fixyourcomputer@fbi.gov" is going to be dropped on the floor.

    There have already been tons of viral messages from these two domains over the past few years. One of the big Windows worms ("Slammer," if I recall correctly) was often mailed out with an fbi.gov From address. Forging irs.gov messages is common among phishers.

  3. Re:And here come the phishers.... by bob_herrick · · Score: 4, Informative
    FTFA

    The FBI will not contact you online and request your personal information so be wary of fraud schemes that request this type of information, especially via unsolicited emails. To report fraudulent activity or financial scams, contact the nearest FBI office or police department, and file a complaint online with the Internet Crime Complaint Center, www.ic3.gov.
  4. Found your problem by symbolset · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... and Windows wasn't ...

    It's right here.

    ... I wiped the whole system clean ...

    That's a good start. If you're going to insist on using Windows, wiping and reinstalling on a regular basis is a must. I recommend at least annually. More often if you use Yahoo search, flash games or shareware. If you use AOL or MSN and chat or IRC, you may as well boot from the Windows install CD each day.

    Getting it set up the way you like it, and creating an "image" file of that setup with Symantec Ghost or something like it makes the process a lot less painful.

    Or you could try actually solving the problem, but I note from your post you don't care for that answer for some non-specified reason.

    If you do ecommerce from a platform you know to be insecure, don't expect everyone here to lobby for legal solutions to your technical problem.

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    Help stamp out iliturcy.