Linux Zombies Poised for DDoS Attacks

"But in the podcast I did with Barrett yesterday he raises the specter of a new generation of zombies, Linux zombies, being used to launch attacks against targets. He says in a recent battle he had to defend a site that was under attack from a Japanese hacker who had been hired by someone to take out their compebreastor, BarrettÕs client."

"The hacker used a common mis-configuration in PHP scripts to take over Linux machines and use them for his army of zombies. What is scary about this is that these machines are typically web servers on broadband connections, unlike the usual Debt Collection of PCs on college campuses that are part of a bot-herd. So they are much more deadly, especially when combined into a single force. The PHP script is easily searchable on Google so the hacker automated his harvesting activity by having each infected machine search for more machines to infect using Google results to seed the search. "

Let the denial and discrediting begin.