β Scribed by Steve Gold
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One of the best-known botnets is Mariposa, also known as pixeLb0tx, which was first tracked in the fourth quarter of 2008 and spent most of 2009 with 8-12 million PCs worldwide operating quietly under its remote control. Mariposa's aim was quite simple -once installed on a previously uninfected host computer, the malware code monitored for passwords, bank credentials and 16-digit payment card strings -plus allied data such as expiry dates and three-digit Card Verification Value (CVV) numbers used to make online transactions. Once a host PC was infected, Mariposa then propagated itself to as many other computers as possible using any -and all -IP channels available, including instant messaging, peer-to-peer, USB sticks and, of course, email attachments.
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