[pchelpers] News:Worm breeds botnet from home

Security researchers have identified a sophisticated piece of malware
that corals consumer routers and DSL modems into a lethal botnet, says
The Register.

The "psyb0t" worm is believed to be the first piece of malware to target
home networking gear, according to researchers from DroneBL, which bills
itself as a real-time monitor of 'abusable' Internet addresses.

It has already infiltrated an estimated 100 000 hosts. It has been used
to carry out distributed denial of service attacks and is also believed
to use deep-packet inspection to harvest user names and passwords.

Sourced here:
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2009/0903241030.asp?S=TechNiche&A=TNC&O=FPW#2
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