Sunbelt: Behold, the Power of Botnets
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Alex Ekelberry writes over on the Sunbelt Blog:
Discussions about botnets in the security community are quite active these days. And there’s a reason: They’re out there and they’re very nasty. Here’s one in action that’s live today.Much more here.
Take this innocent piece of spam. A spam like this will take you to a fake Windows update site.
If you visit the site, they will attempt to run a WMF exploit. If you are patched with the January 5 security update from Microsoft (or have decent AV protection) but still fall for clicking on the “Start” link, you will download a trojan installer, wusetup.exe, which sets up the machine to be controlled in a botnet.
posted by Fergie @ 3/12/2006 04:08:00 PM
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