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Move Over Storm - There's a Bigger, Stealthier Botnet in Town |
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Source: The Register - Posted by Eckie Silapaswang
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Researches have unearthed what they say is the biggest botnet ever. It comprises over 400,000 infected machines, more than twice the size of Storm, which was previously believed to be the largest zombie network.
Machines from at least 50 Fortune 500 companies have been observed to be running the malicious software that's at the heart of "Kraken," the botnet that security firm Damballa has been tracking for the last few weeks. So far, only about 20 percent of the anti-virus products out there are detecting the malware. Just as a con artist might throw off detectives by changing his hair color or other physical characteristics, Kraken's ability to morph its code base has allowed it to evade the majority of malware detectors.
Only twenty percent of all AVs currently out there have any ability to counter this surge of malware and spam. What suggestions or ideas do you have to counter morphing code in botnets?
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