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Hackers embrace P2P concept

by - source: Tom's Hardware

According to a story at washingtonpost.com, a program that security researchers have dubbed "Phatbot," allows its authors to gain control over computers and link them into P2P networks that can be used to send large amounts of spam e-mail messages or to flood Web sites with data in an attempt to knock them offline.

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