Pirated Windows 7 leads to malware, botnet
Sorry, I miss This hot story :[ , According to Damballa, Several news outlets (including eWEEK and Washington Post) are reporting on a new piece of malware embedded into pirated copies of Microsoft’s Windows 7 for the express purpose of building a botnet. There is evidence that the pirated packages of Windows 7 were released on torrent sites on April 24 and was live for at least 16 days before Damballa killed the command-and-control. That puts estimates at about 27,000 installs, eWEEK reports. This is the second documented case of a botnet being built with pirated software distributed on the Internet. Earlier this year, researchers at Symantec discovered a direct link between a malicious file embedded in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 software and what appears to be the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks.
[Ryan Naraine]
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