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Windows reality - The Torpig botnet and LOTS of others out here
Yet another botnet is hacked from the outside, this one uses the boot record/MBR to store the hack to take over Windows computers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...anking_trojan/ One Sinowal Trojan + One Gang = Hundreds of Thousands of Compromised Accounts http://www.rsa.com/blog/blog_entry.aspx?id=1378 Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation http://threatpost.com/blogs/botnet-h...ware-operation UC Santa Barbara http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/proje...pig/index.html Analysis of Sinowal http://web17.webbpro.de/index.php?pa...sis-of-sinowal MEB NOTE: this hack has changed over time [its been around for around four years or so], thinking it works in only one OS or group of OSs is NOT a reasonable approach to inhibiting its expansion. The reason WHY is it happens to be extremely successful and extremely difficult to detect and remove. Numerous variants now exist. Antivirus tools try to remove Sinowal/Mebroot http://windowssecrets.com/2008/11/26...inowal-Mebroot MBR/Mebroot/Sinowal/Torpig is back – better than ever http://www.trustdefender.com/blog/20...ter-than-ever/ File eyu4vh.exe received on 01.05.2009 05:30:58 (CET) http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/f...e7b6f1ead6bcec MEB NOTE: the hack can be in several different forms, the above shows one variant. http://securityorb.com/blog/?cat=32 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/MS...tack-Reloaded/ Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/26/1558245.shtml Power Point 5 - botnets - PDF http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~yzhang/tea...lides/5-10.pdf -- ~ -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm Windows Diagnostics, Security, Networking http://peoplescounsel.org The *REAL WORLD* of Law, Justice, and Government _______ |
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