Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers

I don't scare easy. However, this scares me.

 

i support the death penalty if and when they catch these azzholes

 

Somehow, someway, I bet only Kapersky Labs has the cure!

 

I'd tell you what hardware I have, which OS I use, and which anti-virus program(s) I use, but why wave any flags?

OK, one: The PC's not even connected to the net, and never has been. Hack that!

 

What if it's a foreign nation? Act of war? I believe both North Korea and China have been caught doing this, just ask Google.

Just another excuse for "Bomb'em Barack" to stimulate the economy with a new war!

 

Somewhere somehow they can gain access to your computer. Through repair personnel, transfered work files etc. Etc. It has to use software and all software is vulnerable somewhere in the distribution cycle. If your PC is wireless capable how do you know it isn't connected? Just because you shut it off doesn't mean they can't turn it back on.
How do you get on the net, Mac? Mac's aren't completely immune. :nono: In any case don't taunt them, they have big ego's and crazy skillz. .

 

It appears these individuals have way too much time on their hands...

 

Computer hacking is big business. Once upon a time it was kids at home trying to see what they could do. Sometimes malicious, sometimes joking. But nowadays there are mafias making very big money at it. It's organized crime on a large scale, and it's very profitable. They hire top level programmers. Of course, the systemic vulnerability and crappy design of the most popular and widely-used OS is what makes it possible.

When you read every week of newly-discovered security holes based on memory overflow errors, you have to ask what sort of moron allows a large commercial OS to be built without memory-overflow checking on every stack and every memory allocation? I used to write programs as a hobby and even I knew to include overflow checking every time I allocated memory. It was one of the first things in the K&R book on the C programming language! It almost seems as though Bill prohibits his programmers from checking for overflows.

 

is there an estimate on how much is stolen each year and who is paying for it?

 

Probably.

 

that's what i figured.

 

One trillion dollars. Give or take $75.00.

 

interesting. i wonder what kind of 'data' is worth 4.6 billion? and 600 million for cleanup? nice revenue for the companies that do that kind of work. they must love the cybercriminals. maybe they are the cybercriminals. not sure that adds up to a trillion tho...