Zombie Jamboree
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Are you 'fraid of zombies? You should be! According to the Shadowserver Foundation, which tracks zombie numbers worldwide, in the last three months a plague has broken out - a threefold increase in computers that are part of zombie networks, or botnets, run by hi-tech criminals. In June, 2008, Shadowserver was aware of about roughly 100,000 machines that had been zombiefied. By the end of August more than 450,000 computers had joined the ranks of the victims. The jump in those zombie numbers is linked to a series of wide-spread attacks that injected malicious code into legitimate web sites - code that tried to compromise any visiting machine. Read all about it at BBC News.