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Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet exceeds three million hosts
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, июн 29 2012 03:00
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June 29, 2012Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting that the Win32.Rmnet.12 network, monitored by its virus analysts since September 2011, exceeded three million infected hosts in June. The Win32.Rmnet.12 file infector could pose a serious threat, because it can steal passwords stored by popular FTP clients and perform backdoor tasks.In mid-April 2012 Doctor Web reported that the botnet created by hackers using Win32.Rmnet.12 reached one million compromised computers. Since then, the number of infections has grown steadily: by the end of May, the botnet reached 2.5 million machines, as was reported by Doctor Web in its May virus activity review, and at the end of June, the number of bots broke the 3.2 million mark. The botnet's growth rate is rather high, with 5-8 thousand new joiners connecting to a control server monitored by Doctor Web on a daily basis, and on some days the number reaches 15,000. The graph below illustrates how the number of bots grew in the current month.
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