CIA, FBI, Twitter, and Paypal hit by Botnet.

Well what can I say but pwned!!!! The offending nasty or a variation of it is called Pushdo, Pandex or Cutwail. It used to just infect a pc and send out spam, but now it has been updated to also make SSL connections to various websites. At the moment it seems like the botnet attempts a SSL connection then drops it and repeats, this is similar to a DDOS attack, but not on a large enough scale to have a huge impact yet. SSL traffic places a much larger load than HTTP traffic and if the volume it stepped up the effected sites may be even more pwned