First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered

The Register writes up a Russian security researcher who has uncovered a Linux webserver botnet that is coordinating with a more conventional home-based botnet of Windows machines to distribute malware. "Each of the infected machines examined so far is a dedicated or virtual dedicated server running a legitimate website, Denis Sinegubko, an independent researcher based in Magnitogorsk, Russia, told The Register. But in addition to running an Apache webserver to dish up benign content, they've also been hacked to run a second webserver known as nginx, which serves malware [on port 8080]. 'What we see here is a long awaited botnet of zombie web servers! A group of interconnected infected web servers with [a] common control center involved in malware distribution,' Sinegubko wrote. 'To make things more complex, this botnet of web servers is connected with the botnet of infected home computer(s).'"

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Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready....

[Anonymous Coward]

If I had mod points, I'd mod you Troll.

Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready....

[blind biker]

Define "generally accepted".

Define "define".

Game over, I win.

Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready....

[Zero__Kelvin]

On their face, none of these definitions require a robot to be capable of generating other robots automatically -- merely that the robot must be capable of performing some function automatically."

By your definition cron is a bot. Sorry, but it is not . I was around since before there were botnets, active on the hacking/phreaking scene, so I was there when the terms were coined. I know exactly what bot means; you have literally no idea.