A peek inside the Cythosia v2 DDoS Bot

January 9, 2012 – 12:34 pm

by Dancho Danchev With DDoS extortion and DDoS for hire attacks proliferating, next to the ever decreasing price for renting a botnet, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that cybercriminals are constantly experimenting with new DDoS tools. In this post, I’ll profile a newly released DDoS bot, namely v2 of the Cythosia DDoS bot.

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A peek inside the PickPocket Botnet

January 6, 2012 – 9:33 am

by Dancho Danchev Malicious attackers quickly adapt to emerging trends, and therefore constantly produce new malicious releases. One of these recently released underground tools, is the PickPocket Botnet, a web-based command and control interface for controlling a botnet. Let’s review its core features, and find out just how easy it is to purchase it within [...]

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Botnet Trojan Adds “Gootkit” Code to Web Pages

February 26, 2010 – 2:51 pm

By Andrew Brandt An insidious new Trojan that finds its way onto Windows PCs in the course of a drive-by infection employs a novel method to propagate: It connects to Web servers using stolen FTP credentials, and if successful, modifies any HTML and PHP files with extra code. The code opens an iFrame pointing to [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, Passwords, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)
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