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Hunt Intensifies for Botnet Command & Controls
By Ryan Naraine
March 2, 2006
Operating under the theory that if you kill the head, the body will follow, a group of high-profile security researchers is ramping up efforts to find and disable the command-and-control infrastructure that powers millions of zombie drone machines, or bots, hijacked by malicious hackers.
...compromised machines are controlled by a "botmaster" via an IRC (Inter Relay Chat) server installed illegally on a high-bandwidth educational or corporate network. The idea is to open up a new reporting mechanism for ISPs and IT administrators to report botnet activity, especially the C&C (command-and-control) system that remotely sends instructions to botnets..."If that command-and-control is disabled, all the machines in that botnet become useless to the botmaster...
By Ryan Naraine
March 2, 2006
Operating under the theory that if you kill the head, the body will follow, a group of high-profile security researchers is ramping up efforts to find and disable the command-and-control infrastructure that powers millions of zombie drone machines, or bots, hijacked by malicious hackers.
...compromised machines are controlled by a "botmaster" via an IRC (Inter Relay Chat) server installed illegally on a high-bandwidth educational or corporate network. The idea is to open up a new reporting mechanism for ISPs and IT administrators to report botnet activity, especially the C&C (command-and-control) system that remotely sends instructions to botnets..."If that command-and-control is disabled, all the machines in that botnet become useless to the botmaster...
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