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Big Boost in Zombie PCs Seen From Latest Windows Exploit

Malware, malware everywhere and not a…you get the idea. Here is a nice piece from Dark Reading on the proliferation of malware.

The average number of new zombie PCs recorded each day by CipherTrust has jumped since Aug. 14 to 263,000 from 214,000, Dmitri Alperovitch, research scientist for the Alpharetta, Ga., company said. The increase has been blamed on the most recent version of Mocbot, also called Wargbot and Graweg, which exploits the Windows flaw patched Aug. 8 by Microsoft.

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