Is Your Computer Committing Cybercrimes?
09 April 2012
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
Last week, we told you about efforts by Microsoft Corporation to stop Zeus, one of the most harmful cybercrime operations active today. Zeus hackers use a network of infected computers, known as botnets, to steal personal information from computer users.
On March twenty-third, officials seized computer servers in two states, Pennsylvania and Illinois. The servers were said to be operating some of the worst known Zeus botnets.
Richard Boscovich is with the Digital Crimes Unit at Microsoft. He says the operators of the servers did not know they were linked to cybercrime.
RICHARD BOSCOVICH: “The hosting providers in and of themselves are not necessarily in cahoots with the criminals, so to speak. In the room that we walked into there were over ten thousand computers. So their business is simply to host customers.”
Zeus botnets are positioned all over the world. Mr. Boscovich says they act as command and control centers for the infected computers.
RICHARD BOSCOVICH: “It’s not just one botnet but probably hundreds of different botnets that come from this particular code base.”
And, he says, the Zeus botnets are not easy to identify.
RICHARD BOSCOVICH: “These command and control centers are constantly moving. So it takes a lot of effort to be able to identify where they were, or where they are and where they are going to be.”
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