Orbit Downloader hacked, turns users into DDoS bots

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Denial of service attack capabilities have been found in popular media program Orbit Downloader.

The Windows program integrated into web browsers and was downloaded more than 1.5 million times from website Softpedia and 18,000 times last month alone from rival Softonic. It was still available for download on these sites.

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Story added 23. August 2013, content source with full text you can find at link above.