-
April 7th, 2008, 06:39 PM
#1
A Bigger Botnet
New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm - Dark Reading
Weighs in at 400,000 bots. Nice knowing you, Storm...
The so-called Kraken botnet has been spotted in at least 50 Fortune 500 companies and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques, including regularly updating its binary code and structuring the code in such a way that hinders any static analysis, says Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa.
"It's easy to trace but slow to get antivirus coverage. It seems to imply [the creators] have a good understanding of how AV tools operate and how to evade them," Royal says.
[via Slashdot]
Similar Threads
-
By Egaladeist in forum Security News
Replies: 0
Last Post: October 24th, 2005, 06:47 AM
-
By White Scorpion in forum Other Tutorials Forum
Replies: 3
Last Post: February 13th, 2005, 10:44 PM
-
By ali1 in forum Spyware / Adware
Replies: 62
Last Post: April 22nd, 2004, 10:56 PM
-
By dwcnmv in forum Programming Security
Replies: 9
Last Post: October 8th, 2003, 12:27 AM
-
By Spyder32 in forum Cosmos
Replies: 15
Last Post: December 23rd, 2002, 09:25 PM
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
|
|