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Virus slingers who find themselves unsatisfied by merely ruining computers with ransomware are now first stealing a victim's admin passwords to enslave their websites into attack campaigns. The battery starts with the installation of the Pony malware, which in 2013 stole some two million passwords through its global botnet. …

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  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    And will no doubt continue until *all* users realize their data on on their PC is *valuable*

    And actually, y'know, starting taking this security s**t seriously.

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  2. Don Dumb
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    Law enforcement?

    "Zaharia says the campaign is "extensive" and operates from six bulletproof hosting servers in Ukraine."

    Genuine question - We've identified the servers, so why can the Ukrainian government not simply go there and pull the servers out of the wall?

    Or does Zaharia mean "the difficult bit of Ukraine which doesn't really have a government"

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    1. TeeCee Gold badge
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      Re: Law enforcement?

      In that case, work out who's peering the fuckers and cut them off.

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