13:58 Botnet owners srizbi and storm worm unleashed a war | |
| Security experts have discovered new evidence of the war being waged between a botnet owners Srizbi and the Storm Worm. Like a mafia groups from "The Sopranos", the hackers made a redistribution of spheres of influence. The only difference is that the criminals from the virtual world are struggling for control over the tens of thousands of infected computers and is used in this war, not machines, and Trojans. Trojan called Trojan.Srizbi, part of the combat kit MPack - the latest addition hacker weapons. It not only infects the computer and makes it part of a botnet, but also tries to destroy its main competitor - another trojan Storm Worm. This is another episode in the war between the two botnets. More recently, the bots from the network Storm Worm «ddos" production server Srizbi, which was used to spread malware. The server has been put out of action for the day. Security experts have observed for this attack and said that during the day could not get through to him, to download the latest version of the Trojan. It is possible that in this war involving Russian. According to Symantec, the sale of hacking kit MPack engaged a group of Russian hackers. MPack - it's very professionally made set of web components in PHP, designed to control botnets. Among other tools, it includes a dashboard that shows the IP-addresses of all infected PCs and the list of vulnerabilities for each particular computer. Rival Srizbi is a network of Storm Worm, so named on the first spam that they send out. This is a decentralized peer-which is almost impossible to destroy. Recruitment of new users is mainly through e-cards, by trying several versions of the exploit. Via The Register | |
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