On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:16:58PM -0700, Paul M. Moriarty wrote: > Finjan's Chief Technology Officer has told the Financial Times that > six people based in Ukraine are suspected of compromising 1.9 million > computers worldwide in just two months ? many of them in the U.S. "
In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning. This is a routine occurence, and has been for years. Back around 2003-2004, Chris Lewis reported (on NANAE) that the CBL had days when it detected 200K to 300K new zombies. Picking an arbitrary number well below that rate (100K/day) still yields 6M in two months. Now of course those weren't all controlled by one person (or group of persons), but that's merely a detail; control of hijacked systems frequently passes from one entity to another, either as part of a business arrangement, or because an already-compromised system is sometimes more vulnerable to another compromise. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.