Tippingpoint, a company providing Intrusion Prevention Systems, has published a post on their site detailing how they successfully infiltrated the Kraken botnet and took control of over 25,000 unique bots. The Kraken botnet is arguably the world’s largest botnet with estimates ranging up to 400,000 bots under its control.
Security researchers at TippingPoint infiltrated the botnet [...]
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Botnet infiltration and ethics
23Jul08Microsoft released their third edition of the Security Intelligence Report last month which summarises the findings of their Malicious Software Removal tool, Windows Defender and OneCare service. This edition reports on the software vulnerabilities, exploits and malicious software discovered between January and June 2007. During this period the report claims that over 3,400 new vulnerabilities [...]
Supercomputer for rent?
27Sep07VeriSign, the company that administers the .com top level domain, has warned that botnets are growing at such a rate that there is an increasing risk of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against them effectively shutting down the Internet. They state in a report on ZDNet that they are currently fending off DoS attacks launched from BotNets by increasing [...]
Following the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Defender and Forefront Client Security products, Microsoft have launched a Malware Protection Centre which details the top email, desktop and adware threats, as well as a Malware Encyclopedia covering the various types of malware and their use.
Microsoft Technet has also released a Malware Removal Starter Kit which details the steps [...]
ComputerWeekly reports some statitiscs from the aniti-virus vendor Sophos that web pages on ligitimate sites are being infected by malware at the rate of almost 30,000 a day. Sophos research shows the top ten web-based malware as:
Mal/Iframe 64.0%
Mal/ObfJS 10.1%
Troj/Psyme 3.8%
Troj/Fujif 3.1%
Troj/Decdec 2.7%
VBS/Redlof 2.5%
Mal/Packer 1.1%
Troj/Ifradv 1.0%
VBS/Haptime 1.0%
Mal/Zlob 0.9%
Others 9.8%
I know what you did last logon
30Jun07This is another interesting Microsoft document which was originally presented to the 2006 Virus Bulletin Conference in Montreal in October 2006. It discusses botnets, key loggers and the US legal aspects of monitoring computer use.
Click here to download the document.
