Thursday, April 23, 2009

New Mega-Botnet Discovered

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 22, @07:48PM

from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-internet dept.
SecurityIT
yahoi writes" According to the DarkReading article, 'Researchers have discovered a major botnet operating out of the Ukraine that has infected 1.9 million machines, including large corporate and government PCs mainly in the U.S. The botnet, which appears to be larger than the infamous Storm botnet was in its heyday, has infected machines from some 77 government-owned domains — 51 of which are in the US government. Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it's controlled by six individuals, and includes machines in major banks.'"

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