Coreflood

Coreflood is a trojan horse and botnet created by a group of Russian hackers and released in 2010. The FBI included on its list of infected systems "approximately 17 state or local government agencies, including one police department; three airports; two defense contractors; five banks or financial institutions; approximately 30 colleges or universities; approximately 20 hospital or health care companies; and hundreds of businesses."[1] It is present on more than 2.3 million computers worldwide and as of May 2011 remains a threat.

Background

Backdoor.Coreflood is a trojan horse that opens a back door on the compromised computer. It acts as a keylogger and gathers user information.[2]

Current status

The FBI has the capability, and recently authorization from the courts, to delete Coreflood from infected computers after receiving written consent. The FBI has reduced the size of the botnet by 90% in the United States and 75% around the world.[3]

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gollark: I'm not very "rich" personally, I have £1.90 in my bank account and mostly cheap old/used computery stuff, but my family is pretty "bourgeoisie", as silly communist people would say.
gollark: Ah, I see.
gollark: I can never remember which way round the percentiles go.
gollark: In poorer countries, people have more children so they can get more support when they are old and as a contingency in case few survive to adulthood.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-15. Retrieved 2011-10-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Backdoor.Coreflood". Symantec. November 29, 2002. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  3. "US authorities to delete Coreflood bot from computers". April 29, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.


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