Botnet vs. Botnet: Scammers Fighting Each Other
from the let-them-fight-it-out dept
A few years back, we had the story of one spyware/adware vendor whose surreptitiously installed adware would also remove competing firms' adware, leading to a bit of an argument between two such firms. However, as the really scammy action has moved on to botnets and organized crime groups (rather than venture funded adware firms), it's perhaps no surprise to see the same thing happening in the botnet world. Apparently, one trojan botnet system also has code that disables competing trojans on compromised computers. While it's nice that they're getting rid of one nasty piece of malware, it appears that the criminals behind the removed botnet software are none too pleased -- and have been attacking their rivals back, starting with a denial of service attack on the machine where the other scammers host some files. While you often hear about rival gangs elsewhere, it's not often you hear of such rivalries within cybercrime. Perhaps that actually means that there just aren't enough new suckers out there, and the scammers finally have to start fighting over the gullible set that's already been identified.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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If Only
If only that were true... As I sit here at 3:13 am reading techdirt removing 417 viruses found in my cousins neighbours computer! THERE ARE PLENTY OF IDIOTS TO GO AROUND
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would be nice, but not true, as above my brother phoned me last night with "i cant get on google but i can get to lloyds bank" ... *sigh*
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OY
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I don't use anti-virus or malware programs...it's called not using Microsoft Windows...maybe you should look in to that.
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But, I know if my PC gets something - because I notice a slowdown. It's all just a bunch of junk and really not hard to remove, usually.
Big thing is to watch where you surf, don't download BS, and NEVER, EVER click on pop-ups ads.
A pop-up ad in my face will insure I never buy that product, ever.
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One thing to do
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Mac's cost a shit load and are like cheap Korean cars- can't upgrade them much at all, just throwaways.
Linux is free but good luck getting commercial grade software and games to run on it (This is sad but true :( )
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Talking about morons, do you really claim to be familiar with every operating system ever made? At least you got the first part of your nick right.
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