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Autonomous Intelligent Botnets Bouncing Back

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the duck-and-cover dept.

coomaria writes "Thought that 2009 was the year botnets died? Well, think again: compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world every single day this year, and it's going to get worse if intelligent and autonomous botnets arrive in 2010 as predicted."

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  1. compromised computers ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Cutwail, Mega-D, Rustock and handful of other botnets already have control of upwards of five million compromised computers .. Cutwail also distributed the Bredolab Trojan dropper, disguised in the form of a .ZIP file attachment"

    What Operating System did these 'compromised computers' run on ?

    'Upon execution Bredolab attempts to inject into svchost.exe processes ..