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The armies of the night

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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion 09/09/04

The Internet Storm Center reports that a Norwegian carrier discovered and shut down an IRC-controlled zombie army of 10,000 nodes. Netcraft provides some background on botnets and their recent attacks.

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Hopefully they're also notifying the owners of 10,000 compromised systems.

Posted by: joat on September 11, 2004 12:01 AM

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