Thursday, 28. February 2008
Topic: COMPUTER - on February 28, 2008 at 9:52:00 AM CET
Teenage Bot Herder Admits to Infecting Military Computers
Hacking for money again? Well not really in this case, more like script kiddying for money - modifying an ‘off the shelf’ malware/bot package to evade detection and then cashing in on spamware affiliate fees.
I guess they could have made much with a 400,000 bot network - by renting it out for DDoS attacks to online extortionists. Although legally that’s even more risky.
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