From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
After successful exploitation, a bot uses Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or CSend (an IRC extension to send files to other users, comparable to DCC) to transfer itself to the compromised host. The [...]
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
… some of the more widespread and well-known bots.
Agobot/Phatbot/Forbot/XtremBot
… best known bot. … more than 500 known different versions of Agobot … written in C++ with cross-platform capabilities and the source code is put under the GPL. … structured in a [...]
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
“A botnet is comparable to compulsory military service for windows boxes” - Stromberg
… Based on the data we captured, the possibilities to use botnets can be categorized as listed below. …
Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Most commonly implemented and also very often used are [...]
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
An event that is not that unusual is that somebody steals a botnet from someone else. … bots are often “secured” by some sensitive information, e.g. channel name or server password. If one is able to obtain all this information, he [...]
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. … With the help of honeynets we can observe the people who run botnets … Due to the wealth of data logged, it is possible [...]
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From The Age:
Scientists running a pioneering experiment with “living robots” which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it “lives”.
The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a “survival of the fittest” test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which [...]
Posted on November 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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