Online Criminal Gangs Battle With Botnets
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- http://www.informationweek.com/share...leID=199601992
May 18, 2007 ~ "Criminal cyber gangs are trying to steal zombie computers from rival botnets so they can boost their own numbers and raise the price they get from spammers.
Two or three online criminal gangs are waging an all-out battle for control of the largest botnets, sending out waves of malware aimed at stealing zombie computers from rival gangs to build up their own army. Each online gang is trying to build up the biggest botnet because the bigger the army of infected computers they control, the more money spammers and hackers will pay to use them, explains Shane Coursen, a senior technical consultant for Kaspersky Lab. Since the gangs have their own botnets already built up, they're all trying to pilfer victimized computers from their rivals, to diminish their competitor's botnets while they build up their own... the author of the well-known Storm Worm, also known as Zhelatin, is going head to head with the author or authors of the Warezov and Bagle worms. It's unclear whether one group is responsible for both the Warezov worm and the Bagle worm or if different groups are behind each one... "Instead of just one group that was kind of active, now we're looking at two definite groups and possibly three groups. The activities have increased very significantly over the last six months. We see a huge increase in the amount of spam, and it's largely because of this war"."
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