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Pink Energizer bunny 'way to world domination' has been stopped by hackers

The Energizer bunny, a USB-powered battery charger available on several online stores has been infected with malware. The trojan Arucer.dll was found yesterday in the driver software. 

The Energizer DUO charger driver software contained the trojan. It listens for commands on port 7777 and once activated, it could download and execute files as well as send information to a remote host. Since it is a .dll file Mac/Linux users were unaffected. 

Spanish police arrests masterminds behind botnet

Spanish police have revealed that they have arrested three men responsible for one of the world's biggest networks of virus-infected computers.

All are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills.

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