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

    Best band name ever!!

  7. 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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