US and UK Zombies Demand Top Dollar

coondoggie writes "Denizens of the malware underworld who sell access to compromised computers do so at varying rates depending on where the machines are located, researchers told the Usenix Security Symposium this week. The researchers followed what they called the pay-per-install (PPI) industry, which obtains infected machines from which malware can be launched and sells access to these machines to parties looking for someplace to execute malicious code. Sometimes the PPI sellers hire middlemen to supply the compromised machines, and the PPI dealer retails them."

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Re:Folks, the writing is on the wall

[WrongSizeGlass]

It's plain as day. WE NEED COMMUNISM NOW! You'd have to be blind not to see it.

Communist zombies? Those are slated for the sequel. Everyone knows you never put communist zombies in the first release.

Zombies, feh

[Jay Maynard]

There's nothing wrong with a zombie that a Remington 870 can't fix...be it computer or ex-human.