OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

[Joseph Sinclair]

The rootkit (mebroot) and the botnet payload (torpig) used in this case are 100% Windows-only software.  All infected machines were Windows machines.

That doesn't mean that no botnets infect other O/S platforms, only that this particular botnet is 100% Windows.

Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252353/hijacked-botnet-exposes-startling-online-habits.html
> 
> Thought it was interesting in regards to security. I did not read the
> pdf linked in the article, but it would be interesting to know what the
> breakdown by OS is :). Or does it even matter if most info is actually
> gotten through website exploits of some type.
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