A group of malicious hackers who attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu are also apparently running a for-rent botnet....
The so-called Iranian Cyber Army also took credit last month for an attack on TechCrunch's European website. ...
Researchers with a security startup called Seculert have traced the malicious server behind those attacks and found indications that the Iranian Cyber Army may also be running a botnet. ...
The Iranian Cyber Army is believed to be behind the botnet since the administration panel showed the same e-mail address that was displayed after the Twitter and Baidu defacement attacks. Also, a page displaying statistics on the number of infected machines showed the group's name in its HTML source code....
The statistics page showed that as many as 14,000 PCs were being infected per hour. Since the server has been active since August, Seculert estimates it may have successfully infected as many as 20 million PCs. [Date: 25 October 2010; Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9192800/]
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