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An interesting look at the emerging turf war to control the mega botnets that are rented out to spammers, and which provide a lucrative income to organised crime gangs online.
Leading AV researchers at Kaspersky have now identified three criminal gangs which are participating in an increasingly desperate battle of the botnets. This turf war is, as all turf wars have a habit of doing, turning nasty and it is the average computer who is getting caught ion the crossfire. No longer are the gangs happy to settle for a slice of the spam pie, they want it all. And that means control over as many compromised third party computers to create the biggest of mega zombie botnets. To accomplish this, the gangs behind the Bagle, Warezov and Zhelatin worms are turning their attention to ridding those compromised computers of rival gang malware infections in order to install their own and gain that control.
Oh, no. What will I do? What if my machine's 'doze side becomes infected? Oops, poor fools didn't make their worms for Linux. No spam for you :P
(Yeah, and on that subject, I really should backup my Reiser partition and install Linux again due to some package duplication nastiness with PCLOS)
It doesn't have Linux in it, it has Linux written all over it.
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