Comments on: A peek inside the Darkness (Optima) DDoS Bot

By: Webroot’s Threat Blog Most Popular Posts for 2012 « Webroot Threat Blog – Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:02:02 +0000

[...] A peek inside the Darkness (Optima) DDoS Bot – On a periodic basis, cybercriminals looking for new revenue sources and ways to differentiate their underground market proposition, release DIY (do-it-yourself) malware bots/loaders, either re-introducing key features available in competing releases, or actually innovating with new features. The third post popular post for this year, detailed the features of the Darkness (Optima) DIY DDoS Bot. [...]

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Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:08:00 +0000

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Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:00:47 +0000

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By: BOBO

BOBO — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:30:41 +0000

Indeed FIGHT…but how is it at all possible to ever get ahead of such evil doers? It is like the modern day war against EVIL and Good. We all try to put our trust in security software that has been around for a while.
So the newcomer (User) has no idea in what to believe. So in most cases it is by their research and then the reviews of those that use it.
Which does make one real solution clear….”Research and reviews Never saying yes until we do”.
Even then……what is lurking within???

By: John Sith

John Sith — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:20:48 +0000

I say we fight back against these guys by giving them a dose of their own medicine