Researchers Say Kelihos Gang Is Building New Botnet 110
alphadogg writes "The cyber-criminal gang that operated the recently disabled Kelihos botnet has already begun building a new botnet with the help of a Facebook worm, according to security researchers from Seculert. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, announced that they took control of the 110,000 PC-strong Kelihos botnet on Wednesday using a method called sinkholing. That worm has compromised over 70,000 Facebook accounts so far and is currently distributing a new version of the Kelihos Trojan."
And once again the astroturfing M$ shills are high (Score:0, Interesting)
Pro-Microsoft 7 digits IDs who have infested /. are playing apologists once again.
Geez astroturfing shills give us a break: stop feeling so insecure about your insecure Windows. We (desktop Linux users) do not even represent 2% of the desktop market. We're not going to conquer anytime soon your (stupid) user base.
It has been mentioned that the big variety of Linux kernels / distros / browsers was making life much harder to some would be bot-author that would dream of writing a Linux bot.
Then there's also the documented fact that any remote user exploit on any Windows system means remote admin rights (what was the last super SNAFU for MS: any "remote desktop enabled" Windows could be "root'ed" right!? I know, I know, the term "rooting" comes from "root" from the Un*x world, so if the term comes from the Un*x world it means Un*x system are more vulnerable no?!).
The logic and arguments of these M$ shills is saddening.
Thankfully they're fighting the wrong battle: we're moving away from the desktop apps to the browsers apps and they're totally missing that.
They keep hanging to their last delusion: that the desktop will continue to matter.
Good luck M$ shills: you're not fighting desktop Linux or OS X. You're fighting Android and iOS and you're in for a reality check.