Command-and-control (C&C) server communication is essential for botnet creators to control zombie computers (or bots). To hide this from security researchers, they often use rootkits and other “tricks”. However, hiding the network traffic – specifically from monitoring outside an infected computer – is not an easy task, but is something that the botnet creators have […]
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TDL-4 Indestructible or not???
Our analysis, “TDL4 – Top Bot” by Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov, has rightly been getting a lot of attention. It’s an excellent analytical article which uncovers a very sophisticated and complex malware TDL-4 which is the latest version of TDSS. Some commentators and other security researchers however, focusing on our use of the word […]
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