Putting Windows XP to full use - By creating 500,000 PC Botnet

Well, Someone is putting it to good use

From the Article

What the attackers are after is online banking logins, which form half the business, and PCs that can be sold on to other criminals as compromised machines inside interesting organisations. These can also then be used a proxies for third-party attacks

Perhaps the real story is the incredible ease with which Qbot has found victims, 75 percent of which are based in the US. Significantly, 52 percent of these are running Windows XP, 39 percent Windows 7 with 7 percent Windows Vista.

Anyone who uses XP and still can't patch the old software on their system is probably beyond reach

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2692528/cyber-attacks-espionage/windows-xp-flaws-help-russian-qbot-gang-build-500000-pc-botnet.html