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Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code

08

May

2012

Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious botnet code. As I wrote in my earlier blog, malware authors also use Pastebin to trade botnet kits. Many times, snippets of a botnet help researchers understand the workings of the botnet and write detections for it.The code […]

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Measuring Botnet Populations

02

May

2012

The following is excerpted from a talk I gave at the 2012 APCERT meeting in Bali, Indonesia in March, 2012. The topic was on botnet population measurements, something that we’ve been doing for many years and has grown in importance. What do we mean when we talk about measuring botnet populations? We are trying to […]

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North Korea Rocket Launch Used As Backdoor Lure

26

Apr

2012

Using global political news as a social engineering hook is a popular cybercrime tool, particularly used to lure users into their malicious schemes. We have recently found a malicious file leveraging a noteworthy incident, one that leads to systems being infected with a backdoor. During the second of week of April, the most talked about […]

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