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...business day. Earlier this week Brazilian authorities charged a man for selling access to a 100,000-PC botnet of zombie computers, which could be used to send spam and commit identity theft. Earlier this month Russian hackers tried to create... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/29/232073/bt-updates-botnet-protection.htm
...attackers Brazilian authorities have charged a man for allegedly selling access to a 100,000-PC botnet of zombie computers. The authorities have charged Abreu Neto, 35, for conspiring to cause damage to computers around the world... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/26/231977/brazilian-charged-for-leasing-out-pc-botnet-to-attackers.htm
...spammer then used the addresses and a network of zombie computers to send out billions of spam e-mails on behalf...around £36,000 in 14 months from the operation. Zombie computers are machines remotely controlled by hackers without... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/02/05/221624/dutch-authorities-clamp-down-on-web-criminals.htm
...arrested a man suspected of running a network of zombie computers or bots, believed to have been used to send out 18 million spam messages a day. Zombie computers are taken over by remote attackers without their... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/31/221500/korean-programmers-arrested-for-massive-spam-operation.htm
... While the US remained the number one rogue state in terms of cyber-crime activity, Symantec said 26% of all zombie computers were located in China, the highest total by far. Trojans constituted 45% of the top 50 malicious code samples... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/03/20/222540/china-is-leading-zombie-host.htm
...the report's authors found two gaps. Firstly, it is not an offence in itself to hire a botnet, a network of zombie computers used for distributing spam email and viruses. Vernon Coaker, minister for crime reduction, argued this was similar... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/24/226382/us-has-lessons-for-britain-on-e-crime-punishment.htm
...botnets globally, Alperovitch said. Botnets have doubled over the last six months, increasing from 250,000 new zombie computers coming online and participating to more than 500,000. Mike Rothman, president and principal analyst of Atlanta... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/04/27/223534/new-image-spam-sneaks-into-inboxes.htm
...to the sites restored, prosecutors said. The court heard that Ancheta made money by installing adware on the zombie computers, and using the proceeds to pay for computer servers to carry out additional attacks, new clothes and a luxury BMW... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/09/215858/malware-spreader-given-five-years-jail.htm
...professional spammers, the rate of bot infections is rapidly going up and is a serious problem in the US. Bots are “zombiecomputers infected with rogue code by remote attackers so they can use the machines to distribute spam and other malware without... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/01/10/213603/qwest-threatens-customers-with-3-fine-for-each-spam-message.htm
...over by remote hackers. Zombie computers are used by hackers and fraudsters...of all spam originates from zombie computers. It has launched ZombieAlert...firms which become affected by zombie computers on their network, and to stop... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/07/14/210869/sophos-unleashes-zombie-hunter.htm

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