[GLLUG] Ebay phishers use Linux botnets

[Michael Rudas]

Jim Fick wrote:

> Read this story and thought I would share it with you.
> <http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10251>

Smells more-than-a-little like FUD to me, especially when given at a
Microsoft-sponsored meeting-- correct me (please) if I'm wrong, but
don't most (if not all) Linux rootkits require local access for this
kind of privilege escalation?

The number of botnet-infected Windows machines HAVE to vastly
outnumber the number of Linux/Unix/BSD machines so infected-- why
would infected Linux machines command a premium?

-- Mikey