[pchelpers] News:Major botnet infiltrated

By Chuck Miller

For the first time, a major botnet -- specifically, the insidious Kraken
botnet -- has been beneficially infiltrated. And researchers have found
a way to shut it down remotely. 


Cody Pierce, security researcher at TippingPoint's DVLabs, told
SCMagazineUS on Tuesday that “we set out to see how the bot
communicates, see how it decides who to contact, and discover what kinds
of commands it can execute. The idea was to see if it was possible to
infiltrate these things and shut them down.”

More here:
http://www.scmagazineus.com/Major-botnet-infiltrated/article/109566/
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