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Botnets can be used to blackmail targeted sites
March 17, 2008
USA TODAY
By Jon Swartz and Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
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SAN FRANCISCO – Botnets work beautifully for blackmail.
Cyberextortionists have perfected denial-of-service attacks, in which thousands of bots are directed to bombard a targeted website with nuisance requests, effectively preventing anyone else from connecting to the site.
STORY: Botnet scams are exploding
The crooks threaten to paralyze websites for video games, financial institutions and small e-commerce businesses – unless the website owners pay protection money.
Denial-of-service attacks using …More
Botnet scams are exploding
March 17, 2008
By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
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SEATTLE – Two days after actor Heath Ledger died, e-mails began moving across the Internet purportedly carrying a link to a detailed police report divulging “the real reason” behind the actor’s death. Ledger had been summarily drafted into the service of a botnet.
Bots are compromised computers controlled by profit-minded crooks. Those e-mails were spread by a network …More
Storm e-mail worm evolves as it wreaks havoc on Net
August 3, 2007
USA TODAY
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
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LAS VEGAS — Like a summer cyclone gathering force, the Storm e-mail …More
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