Trail Of Zombie Servers Leads To Online Payment Firm
Dayne Jordan, a partner at Columbus, Ohio, Web-hosting company CompleteWeb, said attackers appear to have wielded the user IDs and passwords of legitimate ISP customers to enter Unix-flavored servers and install software capable of logging on to an Internet relay chat (IRC) channel to await further commands. Similar IRC-controlled "bots" have been used in the past to command small armies of zombie computers in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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