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Who remembers IRC? Clearly some hackers, as a new Linux botnet uses some incredibly old-school methods to cut costs

SSHStalker uses IRC channels and multiple bots to control infected Linux hosts Automated SSH brute-forcing rapidly spreads the botnet through cloud server infrastructures Compilers are downloaded ...
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Hackers resurrect the 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker

SSHStalker uses IRC channels and multiple bots to control infected Linux hosts Automated SSH brute-forcing rapidly spreads the botnet through cloud server infrastructures Compilers are downloaded ...
Network World

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...
InfoWorld

Botnets shrinking in size, harder to trace

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...