BBC botnet investigation turns hacks into hackers
Thu, Mar 12th, 2009
An investigation by the BBC into cybercrime may itself have broken UK computer crime law.
BBC Click got its hands on a botnet of 22,000 compromised PCs from an underground forum. It used these machines to send spam to two accounts it had established with Gmail and Hotmail. The programme also used these zombie machines to show how they might be used in a denial of service attack.
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