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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Botnets Makes Racketeering Thrive

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Botnets Makes Racketeering Thrive
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:20:54 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Researcher: Russian hosting network runs a protection racket

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| The price for "protection:" US$2,000 per month.
| 
| The DDoS attacks are, like almost all such mass attacks, conducted by a 
| botnet, an army of previously-compromised computers that can be told to 
| hammer a site one day, spew huge quantities of spam the next. Numerous 
| researchers, for example, have linked the RBN to the Storm botnet, an 
| amorphous collection of PCs that have been infected with the Trojan by the 
| same name. Some security experts have put the blame for a massive series of 
| DDoS attacks against       
|
| Estonian government sites last year on the RBN.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1496227928&rid=-50

Don't thank Putin. Thank Windows, which is insecure by design.

Sounds like they are pulling a McBride or pulling a Ballmer up there. US$2,000
per month for 'protection'.


Related:

Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers

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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202


What Is A Botnet?

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| Usually, the zombies in use of a botnet are compromised computers running the 
| Microsoft Windows operating system that have been infected with some sort of 
| malware.  
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http://www.yoursdaily.com/science_tech/what_is_a_botnet


2008 kicks off with critical Vista/XP patch

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft's first set of security bulletins for 2008 may be slim, but will 
| include a fix for a critical vulnerability in XP and Vista. 
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15956/53/


In zombies we trust

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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope 
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers 
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening 
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening 
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested 
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random 
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.      
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661


New spam botnet leaves Storm for dead

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| According to Marshal, more than 70 percent of spam is generated by five 
| botnets. 
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16419/1054/


Russian FSB 'protecting' Storm Worm gang

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| The creators of the Storm Worm botnet are known to US authorities but a lack 
| of co-operation from their counterparts in St. Petersburg, Russia, is 
| preventing action being taken.  
| 
| Dmitri Alperovitch director of intelligence analysis and hosted security at 
| Secure Computing told The Washington Post that Russian President Vladimir 
| Putin and political influence within the Federal Security Service (Russia's 
| successor to the Soviet KGB) was hampering prosecution efforts. The 
| implication is that elements of Russian intelligence agencies are protecting 
| the city's cybercriminals.     
| 
| St. Petersburg was the centre of the infamous Russian Business Network. It's 
| also reckoned by some to be the city the Storm Worm (more properly Trojan) 
| authors call home.  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/storm_worm_protection/


U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other

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| If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed
| at undermining the natio's critical information infrastructure,
| the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of
| the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual 
| bombing of an attack source.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html


The feds weigh in on Windows security

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| "The benefits of this move are enormous: Common, secure configurations
| can help slow botnet spreading, can radically reduce delays in patching,
| can stop many attacks directly, and organizations that have made the
| move report that it actually saves money rather than costs money,"
| Paller wrote.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html


Telegraph floored by DDoS attack

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| Cyber-attacks have been much in the news of late. Last week,
| Russian and European leaders held a summit in the aftermath of a
| three-week cycle of denial of service attacks targeting the
| Baltic countries' internet infrastructure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/telegraph_ddos/


Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
|                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
|                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/

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