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Pushdo Trojan Infects 11,000 Systems In 24 Hours

Posted by Unknown on from the bots-everywhere dept.

An anonymous reader writes Bitdefender has discovered that a new variant of the Trojan component, Pushdo, has emerged. 77 machines have been infected in the UK via the botnet in the past 24 hours, with more than 11,000 infections reported worldwide in the same period. The countries most affected so far by the Pushdo variant are India, Vietnam and Turkey. Since Pushdo has resurfaced, the public and private keys used to protect the communication between the bots and the Command and Control Servers have been changed, but the communication protocol remains the same.

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  1. Missing information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What operating system does this software run on?

    1. Re:Missing information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Well it runs on Windows obviously. With the number of reported infections, the speed with which it happened, and the fact that it is a Trojan (meaning you need to trick the user into running it), it can only be Windows. There wouldn't be 11,000 Linux users tricked into running it in 24 hours even if it would run correctly on all their distros because we know Linux users are too smart to run Trojans. Hell, there probably weren't 11,000 Linux machines with users sitting in front of them to BE tricked into running it in that amount of time. With Macs - well every Mac user will tell you they don't get Trojans or viruses. That leaves Windows. Lots of doofuses to be tricked there.

    2. Re:Missing information by operagost · · Score: 3, Insightful

      So basically, all EOL systems that have no business being connected to a network except for 2003, which also shouldn't be connected unless it has SP2 and all security patches.

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    3. Re:Missing information by grcumb · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well it runs on Windows obviously. With the number of reported infections, the speed with which it happened, and the fact that it is a Trojan (meaning you need to trick the user into running it), it can only be Windows.

      This propagation rate is positively tiny. Honestly, I don't know why it's even part of the headline. For context, this paper (PDF, sorry) shows Code Red infecting over 500,000 machines in an hour.

      If 11,000 machines in a day is an event, then we should all be sitting back and breathing a sigh of relief that the bad old days are over....

      (Not that I believe that they are. I just don't see any reason for the breathless headline.)

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