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America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:slashbots by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The stats are something like 95% of /. website readers never click on the comments, much less register an account and post.

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  2. Re:"despite its celebrity status..." by rm999 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't you think it's a problem that a lot of people have never heard of Zeus? I would agree with you if Conficker was the only computer worm/virus out there.

  3. Re:car analogy... by Em+Emalb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How has microsoft convinced anyone for the past 20 years that security isn't important? If anything, I'd say it HAS convinced people security IS important.

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