Seems to rely on poor passwords… any ideas as to what the point may be? Read articles from The Register and F-Secure. Let us know your thoughts.
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One could speculate that this might be a clumsy attempt to find and prepare zombie systems, perhaps to be used to initiate a distributed denial of service attack.
But since this effort is attracting attention, perhaps the intent is to divert focus away from some other nefarious effort.