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Zombie Network Explosion

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the want-braaains dept.

anti-globalism writes "The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months. Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety of metrics to slice and dice its figures based in part on the entropy of botnet infections. The clear trend within these figures is upwards, with a rise in botnet numbers of 100,000 to 400,000 (if 30 day entropy is factored into equations) or from 20,000 to 60,000 (for five day entropy)."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

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  2. Re:How can you tell if a box is zombied? by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    "if it's not running Linux it's zombied"

    It isn't that easy. It might also be running BSD.

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  4. I think I played that by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Zombie Network Explosion? Wasn't that a Flash game on some site?

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    1. Re:I think I played that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      All I know is that I saw the words "zombie" and "explosion", and thought This is it! Finally! and grabbed my shotgun. So disappointed.

  5. Easy by Toreo+asesino · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've become self-aware. Run for the hills!

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    1. Re:Easy by Missing_dc · · Score: 4, Funny

      They've become self-aware. Run for the hills!

      Won't help, you will be found, in a week we are launching a satelite that has 41 centimeter resolution. The rocket will even have a google logo on the side.

      (OK, que the "now they can see my penis(ego) from space" jokes)

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    2. Re:Easy by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, queue the jokes. I'll process them as quickly as a feel like, thank you.

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  6. Re:Interesting. by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's odd.

    I mostly have a email box full of messages that simply state...

    BRAINS!!!!

    I hate Zombie explosions, leaves festering goo all over the place.

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  7. Re:clear sign that by Locklin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if it has more to do with bored students writing malicious code, or bored students downloading "suspicious" content.

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  8. Re:Interesting. by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea but if you write a virus to kill their viruses, then your virus could mutate into something malicious and then spread. Then you'd need a bigger virus to kill those, and then those. Pretty soon you'd be emailing out blocks of code the size of an operating system.

    It's like in Australia. The first farmers imported beetles to kill off the local locusts, then they found that the beetles didnt die and ate crops too. So they imported cane toads, which also ended up eating all the crops. They they tried cats, which ended up just running away and eating local fauna which were much tastier than cane toads, so they brought in foxes to prey on the cats. Then the foxes became a problem so they sent all the criminals there to kill the foxes. But the criminals got bored of that pretty quickly, and that's how we got Australian rules football.

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  9. Re:Interesting. by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pretty soon you'd be emailing out blocks of code the size of an operating system.

    Dude, Ubuntu spam! Thats perfect! Just create an email virus that installs Ubuntu and the botnets will disappear!

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  10. Zombie Network Explosion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Best band name ever!!

  11. Re:clear sign that by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 5, Funny
    Someone got a mail past our spamfilters at uni, pretending to be from the helpdesk, which contained a URL to some malicious code with instructions to download and run it.

    Not only did loads of Windows users run the damn thing, but we got loads of helpdesk tickets from Mac users asking for a Mac version.

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  12. Re:This makes me sad actually... by Fex303 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

    I knew you'd say that.