[GLLUG] Ebay phishers use Linux botnets

[Karl Schuttler]

Well, I know I prefer linux on all of my botnets...I mean...

On 10/4/07, Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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