Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 10, 2011 @09:08AM from the let-me-see-that-a-minute dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Brian Krebs recently posted an interesting piece looking at an invite-only service marketed on shadowy underground forums that lets crooks 'rent' or 'buy' access to individual botted PCs that can be used to tunnel traffic. The story looks at the mechanics of renting out bots, and the author traces some of the infected systems back to real businesses. From the post: 'The Limited; Santiam Memorial Hospital in Stayton, Ore.; Salem, Mass. based North Shore Medical Center; marketing communications firm McCann-Erickson Worldwide; and the Greater Reno-Tahoe Economic Development Authority.'"

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Re:Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC? by CapOblivious2010 · 2011-04-10 10:10 · Score: 5, Insightful

Linux users have a better common sense then the rest.
True enough, but that doesn't say anything about the security of linux... it merely says that people who are smart enough to get linux to work for them are also smart enough (on average) to avoid all the crap that idiot windows users fall for.