The Botnet World is a Booming World
With U.S. and South Korean government Web sites hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks this week by a botnet controlled by an unidentified attacker -- North Korea is suspected, however -- the shadowy world of botnets continues to grow unabated.
By Ellen Messmer
"One of the biggest things we've seen is the dramatic shift to the Web browser," Nazario says about the problem of drive-by downloads. Like other researchers, Nazario says botnets mainly exploit Windows-based machines. "It has become the biggest door into the PC." Users have to stay up to date with patching and benefit from using the latest version of browsers.While it's Nazario's opinion that "Russians have perfected loaders as a service for spamming malware," he predicts the Chinese have a growing interest in botnets. "The Chinese are where the Russian perpetrators were 10 years ago."
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