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Using Market Forces to Disrupt Botnets

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2008-06-09 05:19:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...botnets , but a surplus of ethics on behalf on researchers as well as a lack of an internationally implemented legislation on who, how and when should be given a mandate to do so Basically, country A doesn't really want country B's security researchers messing up with the infected hosts in the country citing cyber espionage fears, despite...
 
Tags: botnets, disrupt botnets, malware, fight malware, market forces, online malware scanners, single pcs, pcs, successful botnets
 
 
 
 
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Understanding and Blocking the New Botnets

2008-04-30 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: WatchGuard) Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. This paper explains how botnets work, and shows the startling innovations that emerged in 2007. After explaining why the latest innovations make bots a more serious threat than ever, the paper concludes with a list of basic, effective defensive countermeasures
 
Tags: botnets, top threat, threat, effective defensive countermeasures, network security, innovations, paper explains, paper concludes, basic
 
 
 
 
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Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

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2008-07-28 07:58:08 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...botnets were responsible for over 25% of all click fraud activity they were monitoring during Q2. Not surprising, given that botnets have long been observed to commit blick fraud, using a common traffic exchange scheme . What's new is the use and abuse of parked domains Despite indication that some of the clicks from parked domains were...
 
Tags: click, click fraud, click percentage, click basis, pay-per-click, click forensics, click fraud activity, invalid, invalid clicks difficult
 
 
 
 
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Botnets, Fastflux and DDoS in D.C.

2007-08-25 12:10:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...botnets. It's not a conference for pushing your products or schmoozing. The idea is to talk about real ways to fight high-level malicious activity on the Internet. The press, unfortunately, is not welcome at these events (BOOOO!!!!), but I'm sure I'll squeeze some stories out of participants afterwards
 
Tags: security events, events, security, internet security operations, internet, aed conference center, conference, exploit prevention labs, roger thompson
 
 
 
 
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Storm worm, other botnets, kept spam levels high in 2007

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Botnets helped keep spam output at consistently high levels last year, and the global spam output reached rates as high as 96% of all e-mail traffic 2007, according to a report from security firm Commtouch
 
Tags: global spam output, spam output, security firm commtouch, levels, botnets, e-mail traffic, report, consistently
 
 
 
 
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Botnets, Fastflux and DDoS in D.C.

2007-08-25 12:10:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...botnets. It's not a conference for pushing your products or schmoozing. The idea is to talk about real ways to fight high-level malicious activity on the Internet. The press, unfortunately, is not welcome at these events (BOOOO!!!!), but I'm sure I'll squeeze some stories out of participants afterwards
 
Tags: security events, events, security, internet security operations, internet, aed conference center, conference, exploit prevention labs, roger thompson
 
 
 
 
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McAfee's open source statements are fighting words to Matt Asay

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2008-04-15 08:47:01 by HASH0x8b572d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...botnets. Here is the quote in question Taking the bot controller offline may kill a botnet. As a result, many bots use a Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) or have a list of backup IP addresses to survive such an event. Bot technology is rapidly evolving, often aided and abetted, unfortunately, by the open-source movement . [Emphasis Matt's ...
 
Tags: source, matt, source brings, matt asay, source applications, linux, linux versus windows, source watchdog, mcafee
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing June's Threatscape

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2008-07-01 07:05:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...botnets and undermining the sophisticated botnet master's high profit margin business model by undercutting their prices, stolen credit cards are not what they used to be - an exclussive good. Nowadays, they are a commodity good and often a bargain 03. Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software - Sampling an active blackhat...
 
Tags: site, fake youtube site, web site defacements, malware, malware hosts, web site defacer, sites, vulnerable sites, malicious
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...botnets continuing to commit click fraud and generate revenue for those who own or have rented them, an infamous money mule recruitment service taking advantage of the fast-fluxed network provided by the ASProx botnet - pretty interesting month indeed 01. Decrypting and Restoring GPcode Encrypted Files The GPcode authors read the news too,...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam