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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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Botnet Shutdown Success Story: How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

29

Sep

2011

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the communication protocol […]

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The Miner Botnet: Bitcoin Mining Goes Peer-To-Peer

19

Aug

2011

Identifying a botnet is not an easy task sometimes, especially when one gets lost in different components like droppers, infectors and other bad stuff. Some two weeks ago, Jose Nazario from Arbor Networks pointed me to a new varmint that appears to be another peer-to-peer bot. When executed, the program installs tons of stuff that […]

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

Botnet Shutdown Success Story: How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

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