TDSS Botnet Hired Out for Anonymous Web Operations

An extremely big and advanced TDSS botnet reportedly has been overtly hiring out its contaminated computers for the benefit of anyone who wished using it. The botnet has even designed one Firefox add-on for helping clients, reports KrebsOnSecurity dated September 6, 2011. Further, according to security company Kaspersky, the TDSS botnet is welcoming payments through Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and e-currency such as Liberty Reserve and WebMoney. Researchers Igor Soumenkov and Sergey Golovanov from Kaspersky, who published a thorough study of TDSS during June 2011, explains that the malware installs numerous components among which the "socks. dll" file is noteworthy as it lets others operate the contaminated computers for doing Web surfing in secret. . . . Read the rest of: TDSS Botnet Hired Out for Anonymous Web Operations

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