News Have hackers recruited your PC?

Been wondering why the internal speaker on your PC keeps moaning 'Braaiiins'?

The beeb asks if nefarious hackers have been waving their digital Juju bags in the direction of your machine, causing it to join their unruly army of darkness...

More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack websites and pump out spam and viruses.
The huge number was revealed by security researchers who have spent months tracking more than 100 networks of remotely-controlled machines.

The largest network of so-called zombie networks spied on by the team was made up of 50,000 hijacked home computers.

Data was gathered using machines that looked innocent but which logged everything hackers did to them.

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