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Pinch Trojan lives on after authors' arrests
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| Variants of the Pinch Trojan are infecting users more than a year after the
| arrest of its original authors.
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| More than 4,000 PCs a day were getting infected by just one variant of the
| information-pilfering malware, according to net security firm PrevX, which
| bases this estimate on logs from a malware control website left open by
| cybercriminals.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/05/pinch_trojan_toolkit/
Pinch Trojan Infecting 4,000 Web Users Daily
http://www.pcworld.com/article/158984/pinch_trojan.html?tk=rss_news
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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