[wplug] Be afraid ... interesting research on botnets

Greg Simkins gregsim at telerama.com
Tue Mar 15 14:47:30 EST 2005


When is somebody (I guess some Govt agency) going to actually DO something 
about these attacks?  It seems like that these huge zombie networks could be 
broken up with a bit of concerted effort.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: [wplug] Be afraid ... interesting research on botnets


>
> I thought this was a fascinating report:
> http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/
>
> Some interesting highlights ... after setting up a honeypot to allow
> crooks to set up botnets and monitor their activity, they frequently
> witnessed networks of tens of thousands of zombies connecting.  They
> found hacked IRC servers specifically designed to control zombie networks
> of up to 80,000 nodes.
>
> Pretty scary.
>
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> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
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