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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 281 days ago
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Not your father's botnetResearchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 281 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/new_botnet_advances/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco13th February 2008Researchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.One of them, dubbed MayDay by security firm Damballa, uses new ways to send and receive instructions to infected machines. One communication method uses standard HTTP that is sent through an organization's web proxy. That allows the malw read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 280 days ago
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Forwarded from: *Hobbit* <hobbit (at) avian.org>Breathless articles like this just piss me off. It isn't about whose botnet is bigger or more secretive or what its C2 protocol is. It's really about the fact that they're permitted to exist at all, let alone successfully send huge volumes of spam.If the ISPs would actually grow a pair one of these days and curtail untrusted customer netblocks full of known-infested machines from sending ANY direct SMTP traffic to anywhere but the ISP's own authorized read more »
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