Beware the Golden Cash Botnet - FrugalTech

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Well the Bad Guy's are taking things a step further and are now renting botnets between $5.00 to $100 per 1000 infected Windows PCs. Stay safe out there! Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Science & Technology

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• Golden
• Cash
• Botnet
• Virus
• Trojan
• Hacker
• Finjan
• Cybercrime
• Microsoft
• XP
• Vista
• WIN7
• Apple
• Linux
• OSX
• Server

[thesokrin]

i lost the game

[FrugalTech]

Umm Ok?

[athomas1124]

so are you saying that this affects the computers that have windows apps but not macs?

[FrugalTech]

Yes, only one known botnet for the Mac that I am aware of called iServices and that comes with some pirated copies of Photoshop for Mac.

[Radikll]

*coughLinuxcough*

[FrugalTech]

Hi Radikll, I was waiting for that.LOL

[pspheaven]

@CustomSync I wouldn't say hackers.. I'd say crackers or Black hats... but yes There are tools you can get for about $10 if you know where to look that will encode your virus and make it harder to be detected... They're called FUDs

[CustomSync]

Even with the most up to date AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, Firewalls, it can NOT keep up with the encryption techniques that "hackers" use no a days with their trojans, bots and so on.

People can buy an encryption program for their torjan for the great price of $10 in the right place, and suddenly their trojan is no longer detected by anything. Of course, maybe after a few weeks or months your Anti-Virus will update and detected it, but by then it will be to late.

:(

[FrugalTech]

Thanks for the comment. You are very correct.

[upallhours9]

Very informative. Using caution, common sense is the key. Antivirus, anti-malware software can be helpful. but can be compromised if the user is careless what sites they visit.