Comment Karma Whoring (Score 1) 226
For the uninitiated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whoring
For the uninitiated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whoring
One trojan in the MPack attack kit is now removing a worm distributed by another group, who sat up and responded- DDoSing the server that the trojan uses to update itself.Security researchers have uncovered evidence of a turf war between rival criminal enterprises connected to two of the most sophisticated malware toolkits in current use.But rather than clashing over who gets to skim money off a garbage collection contract or a major construction project, the cyber criminals are battling to own tens of thousands of compromised computers.
Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955