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Kaspersky reverse-engineered the bot malware, cracked the botnet's communication protocol, and then developed tools to attack its peer-to-peer infrastructure, explains Kaspersky Lab expert

Ars Technica Jon Brodkin 2011

After reverse-engineering the bot malware, cracking the botnet's communication protocol, and developing tools to attack its peer-to-peer infrastructure, "we started to propagate a special peer address," explains Kaspersky Lab expert

Ars Technica Jon Brodkin 2011

Subpoenas have been served to the domain registrars used to register the domains used to control the network, and the e-mail providers used by the botnet's owners in correspondance with the registrars.

Ars Technica Peter Bright 2011

The botnet's output has fallen from thousands of spams per second to one or two spams per second:

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

All of this information is uploaded to the botnet, and of course would be very valuable for enabling further attacks. original Waledac was taken offline by Microsoft two years ago, when the company severed the connection between the botnet's command-and-control servers and the thousands of zombie computers it was controlling.

Ars Technica Jon Brodkin 2012

Trademark infringement allows the wronged party to seize the property of the infringer, and it is this seized property-specifically, hard disks used in the botnet's command and control servers-that has enabled the company to determine who was responsible for the network. given to the court, Microsoft described the results of its forensic examination of the disks.

Ars Technica Peter Bright 2011

Before updating its signatures to block the botnet's malware, Palo Alto detected it on 30 or 40 customer firewalls, primarily in Europe.

Ars Technica Jon Brodkin 2012

The company says that the data turned out to be the product of a botnet of over 74,000 computers, that the malware used to create the botnet was recognized by less than 10% of antivirus software, and that the botnet's network communication was not recognized by existing intrusion detection systems.

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Thomas Claburn 2010

The company says that the data turned out to be the product of a botnet of over 74,000 computers, that the malware used to create the botnet was recognized by less than 10% of antivirus software, and that the botnet's network communication was not recognized by existing intrusion detection systems.

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Thomas Claburn 2010

The FBI announced that as part of a two-year, cross-border investigation into the Mariposa botnet, authorities in Slovenia last week arrested a Slovenian citizen and charged him with being the botnet's creator.

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2010