More details have emerged about a cybercrime investigation that led to the takedown of a botnet containing 12m zombie PCs and the arrest of three alleged kingpins who built and ran it.
“Users of Windows currently have to worry about hitting a particular physical key.”"Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details," says this other new report, so these Windows zombies have already caused theft and huge damages that are hard to measure (according to some estimates, the cost may easily exceed a trillion dollars in total, for Windows botnets as a whole). It is estimated that about one in two Windows PCs is is a zombie PC [1, 2], with Microsoft itself putting the optimistic bar at about a third (2009 figures).
Two days ago we wrote about the F1 flaw, which is now confirmed by Microsoft. It shows that nothing is improving. Users of Windows currently have to worry about hitting a particular physical key. ⬆
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Robotron 2084
2010-03-06 06:15:52
Needs Sunlight
2010-03-05 17:38:26
Just wait till this gets combined with the banks being able to deny accountability for their own intentionally insecure 'banking' systems.
Needs Sunlight
2010-03-05 20:17:44
Roy Schestowitz
2010-03-05 22:15:55