13:07 The switch from 100 000 computers | |
It turns out botnets are not only used to steal personal data, but also for small-sabotage in the form of off-infected computers. In April of this year, bots Zeus / Zbot command was issued under the title «KOS» - «Kill Operating System» as a result of which about 100,000 Windows users to see the blue screen. Only here do not quite understand why the owners of the botnet needed to "kill" them under the control of computers. Swiss expert Roman Huessy conducts site Zeustracker, tracking the spread of botnet. He also has noticed an unusual team in April, cast more than 100,000 infected computers. The most interesting - it is a question why the botnet owners have made this seemingly disadvantageous to them quite a step. After all, they are actually violated their own hands the work of his own as a botnet. Security experts speculated on the subject. One version - is that the attackers after the massive theft of financial data, so decided to buy time for something to use this data to appropriate the funds of the victims. That is, roughly speaking, transfer money from the accounts until the victim rebooted their computers. According to other experts, control server Zeus'a been hacked by another group of hackers or other botnet owners, who decided in such a way to get rid of competitors. So when you next see a blue screen of death, maybe it's someone indulges in a botnet switch. Via ArsTechnica | |
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