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February 23, 2006
The zombies are marching
Looks like today's theme is ... PANIC! No, sorry, we're over-reacting. Just thought you should know that in addition to those heightened phishing activities, the number of NEW zombie PCs being introduced to the Internet is 250,000 a day.
British security firm Ciphertrust has been counting the new appearances and says that the people running these zombies in vast "botnets" have started to specialise. While some create the networks, others hire them out, or write the spam or phishing e-mails that spouts from them, or administer the networks.
Maybe long jail terms will deter these people, but what with so many of them being run in Eastern Europe, most are highly unlikely to be identified. Our future security [SIGH!] will depend on constant vigilance.
Posted by cw at February 23, 2006 10:53 AM