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Botmaster owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs
« on: November 10, 2007, 10:00:06 PM »
Botmaster owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs
   


Security consultant John Kenneth Schiefer has admitted using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal online banking identities of Windows users by evesdropping on them while they made financial transactions.
   

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/botmaster_to_plea_guilty/
   

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