Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks

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By Richard Chirgwin

An Interpol investigation has revealed a worrying degree of insecurity in south-east Asian countries, with even government-operated web servers infected to operate as command and control systems for bot-herders.

The investigation turned up and shut down 9,000 C&C servers across “hundreds” of compromised Websites in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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