10,000 zombie PCs

It's almost like something out of Neuromancer! An article at the Register today describes the discovery in Norway of a 10,000-strong network of PCs all infected with worms such as MyDoom and Bagle being controlled via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for spamming or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The article goes on to refer to a Ohio-based IRC provider shut down for acting as middleman in corporate DDoS attacks.

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