America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @07:17AM from the lurking-on-your-parents'-desktops dept.

bednarz writes "Network World ranks America's 10 most wanted botnets, based on an estimate by security firm Damballa of botnet size and activity in the United States. The leader is Zeus, with 3.6 million compromised PCs so far. The Zeus Trojan uses key-logging techniques to steal user names, passwords, account numbers and credit card numbers, and it injects fake HTML forms into online banking login pages to steal user data. At the bottom of the list is Conficker, which despite its celebrity status has compromised just 210,000 US computers so far."

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Re:!Botnet by Darkness404 · 2009-07-22 07:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hm, that is interesting. However the article didn't ever mention anything about the actual botnet part of it which I kinda thought was the point of the article. But having a EULA for a botnet? Now thats funny.

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