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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has attracted renewed interest lately, but not in a good way: The bad guys are now using the ‘70s disco-era file transfer technology to serve up bot malware, and even as a backdoor into some enterprises that neglect to lock down their FTP servers.

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Cybercriminals are selling a new crimeware package that can automatically infect nearly 9,000 FTP servers at some major global companies, researchers said today. Researchers at Finjan say they recently stumbled upon a Website selling and trading these stolen FTP server administrator credentials in a software-as-a-service model.

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