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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 09:11 AM EST |
I guess I am confused. Is this a M$ only problem?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 09:30 AM EST |
Hang on, MS have stolen control of a botnet, and *AREN'T* shutting it down?
Can't we go after then under the CFaAA for that?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 10:49 AM EST |
Knowing these guys, they'll change the users default search engine to Bing at
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- Oh? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 12:52 PM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 01:49 PM EST |
Microsoft and Symantec told the court they believe that the
fraudsters behind Bamital earned at least $1 million a year in profits from
the operation.
krebs on security who is the only one of my usual security blogs who
thought this was worth any words.
Banital redirects the victim's
search and commerce towards the bad guys. It also uses the victim's machine for
click-fraud. Forensic analysis of Bamital shows that it
can enlist the
person’s computer in other illegal activities. MS & Symantec have presented
no evidence of these other activities actually happening. Bamital
so far is a
script kiddies' game compared to the Zeus type botnets that are stealing
real
money from the victims, or
Red
October which steals government secrets.
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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 02:39 PM EST |
There is no mention in the entire article of HOW this virus
gets onto computers, except some mumble about "browser
vulnerabilities". In Idiot Exploder, by any chance? Does it
affect Firefox? Safari? Linux? Mac OS? Solaris? I'd bet
the answers are NO, NO, NO, NO and NO! This is just one
more security hole in buggy MS bloatware, that it took
them 3 years to find, but they won't admit to it.
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