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Malware Honeypot Projects Merge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the two-great-tastes dept.

rebvend writes "eWeek is reporting that two of the biggest honeypot projects (mwcollect and nepenthes) have merged operations. A new meta-portal at mwcollect.org will become a top-level community covering malware collection efforts while nepenthes will become the official tool for malware collection."

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  1. Evolution by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't the malware folks get hip to the honeypots rather quickly or do they just unleash their plague and hope the hits overwhelm any setbacks from the honeypot?

  2. No Windows version ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful


    Ironic that you need Linux/BSD to collect malware for a Windows platform, wouldnt it make more sense to have a windows version too ?

    1. Re:No Windows version ? by WindBourne · · Score: 4, Insightful

      All that you really want is to emulate an opening enough to encourage a cracker/worm to show itself and what the attempt is. If you use Windows, there will be back doors that will be unknown and the honeypot will most likely be cracked. Something like *bsd or *nix is needed.

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