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First Sony “Rootkit” Bots Show Up

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:

If people can use the Sony rootkit to hide their World of Warcraft hacking tools, why not real malware? It was only a matter of time, and here it is.

“The first version of a Trojan horse spotted early Thursday, which aims to give an attacker complete remote control over an infected computer, didn’t work well. But over the course of the day, several others emerged that apparently fixed early flaws.”

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