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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2783112" data-attributes="member: 9254">Actually, they probably don't care.  These attacks are usually made from foreign countries, typically former soviet states, using a U.S. network of zombie Windows machines.  Rumors in the security circles are that an attacker can "rent" bots in units of 1,000 machines from the "owner" of a particular worm/trojan.  Which means if I wanted to take down WW, I could put in an order for 10,000 haxxored PCs to hammer the WW site on a given day.  Most of the zombie bots are always-on PCs on a cable modems or DSL where the owner has no clue.  Sometimes the infection is months, or even years, old.  Aunt May is just too clueless to realize her machine has been pOwn3d.  While her dinky 200Mhz PPro is just barely smarter than a PalmVx, it and it's 9,999 friends can generate a server slaughtering amount of bandwidth.  The FBI has limited ability to intervene since the money is to be sent to various foreign banks, typically in money-laundering friendly or US-hostile countries.  Tell me a Syrian bank is going to care squat about the FBI before the extortionists have a chance to filter the money through carribean and/or swiss banks.  The immediate solution is for data providers to turn off haxx0red users until the machine is clean.  It's illegal to drive a car with no headlights, turn signals, or brakes and IMO it should be against the Ts & Cs to be online with a dozen worms and no antivirus.  The long-term solution is for carriers to start taking actions against the host countries and first drop the nation's QOS levels and then start blocking traffic at the network edge.  Iran may be able to survive without the internet but the ex-Soviet states are desperately trying to modernize.</blockquote>

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