FBI tries to fight zombie hordes

The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals. The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes. The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.

The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals.The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6752853.stm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2007-06-13-fbi-arrests_N.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/millionth_botnet_address/
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/14/1181414391048.htmlAlso see:
us: Operation: Bot Roast – ‘Bot-herders’ Charged as Part of Initiative (news release)
They’re called “bot-herders:” hackers who install malicious software on computers through the Internet without the owners’ knowledge. Once the software is loaded, they can control the computer remotely. And once they’ve compromised enough computers, they have a robot network or botnet. Some botnets are huge: tens of thousands of infected computers. Or more. As a result of Operation Bot Roast, an ongoing and coordinated initiative to disrupt and dismantle these bot-herders, we’ve identified about 1 million computers across the country that have been compromised.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june07/botnet061307.htm

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