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Botnet Shutdown Success Story – again: Disabling the new Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

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Mar

2012

Last September, in partnership with Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), SurfNET and Kyrus Tech, Inc., Kaspersky Lab successfully disabled the dangerous Hlux/Kelihos botnet by sinkholing the infected machines to a host under our control. A few months later, our researchers stumbled upon a new version of the malware with significant changes in the communication protocol […]

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Not just a one-trick PonyDOS

08

Mar

2012

Reversing the crypto used by the PonyDOS attack bot This blog post is the third installment in our ongoing series of articles exploring the crypto systems commonly found in various DDoS malware families. In previous articles we covered the reversing of the Armageddon and Khan DDoS bots; today we will cover a new malware family […]

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Reversing the Wrath of Khan

07

Mar

2012

Analysis of the crypto used by the Trojan.Khan DDoS bot A recent blog post described our analysis of the crypto algorithm used by the Armageddon DDoS malware. This article continues our ongoing series on reversing the crypto mechanisms used by contemporary DDoS botnets; our guest of honor today will be a bot we have been […]

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