[122812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Feb 22 10:34:39 2010
In-Reply-To: <1266851844.24784.1.camel@petrie.dereferenced.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:34:41 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM, William Pitcock
<nenolod@systeminplace.net> 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?
>
Nothing. Good point. :-)
- - ferg
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