Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers

Gadi Evron ge at linuxbox.org
Mon Feb 22 16:03:09 UTC 2010


On 2/22/10 5:17 PM, William Pitcock wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:21 +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
>> Last week Czech researchers released information on a new worm which
>> exploits CPE devices (broadband routers) by means such as default
>> passwords, constructing a large DDoS botnet. Today this story hit
>> international news.
>>
>
> What makes this any different than psyb0t, which was discovered in the
> wild last year?

Absolutely nothing. I think it is mentioned in the PC World story 
though. Thanks for bringing it up.

	Gadi.

> William
>




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