Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Botnets getting beefier

Think botnets are bad now? We ain't seen nothin' yet.

A select group of some 40 security researchers gathered in the first Usenix event devoted to these networks of infected machines. The invitation-only event, called HotBots, was held in Cambridge, Mass.

At the event, researchers warned that botnets--which can contain tens or even hundreds of thousands of zombie PCs that have been taken over for use in spamming and thievery of financial and identity-related data--are <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2114741,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL041707EOAD">on the brink of a technological leap</A> to more resilient architectures and more sophisticated encryption that will make it that much harder to track, monitor and disable them.

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