Money Bots: Hackers Cash In on Hijacked PCs
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| Within 24 hours, the IRC-controlled botnet hijacked more than 7,700
| machines via the Windows Server Service vulnerability and hosed the
| infected computers with the noxious DollarRevenue files.
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| During a four-day stretch, researchers at the Manheimm, Germany,
| honeynet project counted about 9,700 infections from a single
| command-and-control center and calculated that the attacker was
| making hundreds of dollars a day in commissions from DollarRevenue alone.
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