Practical Issues in InfoSec » torpig http://www.dlstrom.com ... putting information security within reach of everyone! Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:22:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Interesting Read: Taking over the Torpig botnet http://www.dlstrom.com/2009/05/05/interesting-read-taking-over-the-torpig-botnet/ http://www.dlstrom.com/2009/05/05/interesting-read-taking-over-the-torpig-botnet/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 16:09:24 +0000 d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna http://www.dlstrom.com/?p=215 If you are interested in a real-world botnet analysis, take a look at the work being done with Torpig at UC Santa Barbara.

Taking over the Torpig botnet

This botnet is used for the normal activities of harvesting sensitive information from computers that are controlled. Using Domain Flux, the botnet generates lists of servers for drive-by spreading by using information from Twitter trends. Pretty clever.

If you are interested in the details, be sure to download The Report.

Thanks to my bro, Steve for pointing this project out to me.

- Dan

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