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February 10, 2010
Trojan Horses Fight for Control of the Internets
This is pretty wild. Apparently, two trojan horses programs are battling for control of the botnets - computers infected by viruses and trojan horses and controlled remotely by nefarious groups. The big trojan horse development toolkit that emerged last year was Zeus. Zeus infected an estimated 1.6 million computers in 2009. And now, in 2010, a new trojan horse development toolkit named "Spy Eye" has emerged with the ability to "Kill Zeus". The goal of Spy Eye is to kick out Zeus, and take over the infected computer for the new owner. Classic.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on February 10, 2010 at 9:48 AM
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