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March 24th, 2009
By Chad Perrin

More than 100,000 hosts have been infected with a new worm called psyb0t. This worm appears to present a serious threat to home networks everywhere:

* It infects consumer grade router appliances.

* It can be used to carry out DDoS attacks, which also affect the infected host’s available bandwidth while helping consume that of the target.

* It may be able to perform deep packet inspection to harvest user names and passwords from unencrypted traffic.

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