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Russian Botnet Steals From Another, Replaces Virus With Its Own

7:40AM February 12, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Nevermind the war against viruses -they’ll kill each other before we even update AVG. A Russian Trojan horse program, known as Spy Eye, has stolen data from its competitor Zeus and replaced PC infections with its own botnet-badness. More »


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Those Pirated Versions of Windows 7 RC Are Building a Botnet

10:01AM May 20, 2009 | Jason Chen

The botnet just added 25,000 users in the last few weeks. Nice job, geniuses. Couldn’t you have downloaded it from Microsoft directly? [MSDN]

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Symantec Finds First Mac Botnet, Already Launching DDoS Attacks

10:57AM April 18, 2009 | Jason Chen

The first Mac botnet is already launching DDoS attacks against some website, which penetrated Macs via tainted copies of iWork ’09 and Photoshop CS4. Just like what we told you about in January. Be careful when you pirate stuff. [ZDNet via NYT]

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