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03-18-05, 02:00 PM
Over a million computers hijacked
More than one million computers on the Net have been hijacked to attack Web sites and send out spam and viruses. This is according to a report by security researchers who have spent months tracking over 100 networks of remotely-controlled machines.
BBC Newssays the data was gathered by the Honeynet Project using networks of computers set up to attract hackers and gather information about how they work.
The research found that, once compromised, machines tend to report in to chat channels on IRC servers and wait for instructions from the hacker behind the tools used to recruit the machine.
Researchers say well-known vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system were exploited by hackers to find and take over target machines.
Geoff
More than one million computers on the Net have been hijacked to attack Web sites and send out spam and viruses. This is according to a report by security researchers who have spent months tracking over 100 networks of remotely-controlled machines.
BBC Newssays the data was gathered by the Honeynet Project using networks of computers set up to attract hackers and gather information about how they work.
The research found that, once compromised, machines tend to report in to chat channels on IRC servers and wait for instructions from the hacker behind the tools used to recruit the machine.
Researchers say well-known vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system were exploited by hackers to find and take over target machines.
Geoff