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FAQ: Disabling the new Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

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Mar

2012

Q: What is the Hlux/Kelihos botnet? A: Kelihos is Microsoft’s name for what Kaspersky calls Hlux. Hlux is a peer-to-peer botnet with an architecture similar to the one used for the Waledac botnet. It consists of layers of different kinds of nodes: controllers, routers and workers. Q: What is a peer-to-peer botnet? A: Unlike a […]

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A tool exploiting MS12-020 vulnerabilities

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Mar

2012

Since the public release of MS12-020 bulletin, there have been plenty of attempts to exploit the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities. Last week, we received a related sample, which turned out to be a tool called ‘RDPKill by: Mark DePalma’ that was designed to kill targeted RDP service. The tool was written with Visual Basic […]

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Anonymous Supporters Tricked into Installing Zeus Trojan

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Mar

2012

In 2011, dozens of Anonymous members who participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in support of Anonymous hacktivism causes were arrested. In these DDoS attacks, supporters using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon denial-of-service (DoS) tool would voluntarily include their computer in a botnet for attacks in support of Anonymous. In the wake Anonymous member arrests […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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