What if you wanted to build your own botnet to act as a spam relay or to launch a denial-of-service attack against an organization or a country? "It’s actually a lot of work," says Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks.
Anatomy of a botnet
September 15th, 2008 · Comments Off
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Russia the Evil Hacker Haven
February 10th, 2008 · Comments Off
The most powerful Internet weapon on the planet is being protected by the Russian government. The weapon in question is the Storm botnet. This is the largest botnet ever seen, and while the United States has traced its creators to Russia, the government there refuses to cooperate in shutting Storm down.
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