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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on September 12, 2009, 03:02:03 pm
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Link to full article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/12/linux_zombies_push_malware/)
A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet of sorts and used to distribute malware to unwitting people browsing the web.
With about 100 nodes, the network is relatively small, making it unclear exactly what the attackers' intentions are. All of the boxes examined so far have run the Apache webserver on a various distribution of Linux, he said.