Monster: Millions of users' data may have been stolen
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| While investigating the recent theft, the company learned that its Web site
| had previously been hacked.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6205236.html
They use Windows on the server and their users had their PCs compromised, too.
Pinch-bum malware creates titters
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/30/cheeky_trojan/
Bloggers battered by viral storm
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| Infected computers are being hijacked by the gang behind the attacks and
| either mined for saleable data or used for other attacks.
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| The Blogger attack is the latest in a series by a gang that has managed to
| hijack hundreds of thousands of PCs.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6970368.stm
Related:
Trojan creates bogus webmail accounts to punt drugs
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| The use of compromised PCs to send spam has been going on for years, but the
| HotLan-A Trojan follows a more complex routine. Each active copy of the
| Trojan attempts to set up a webmail account before pulling encrypted spam
| emails from a website.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/06/webmail_trojan/
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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