Eavesdropping on a Botnet

wild3rbeast writes "Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher with LURHQ's Threat Intelligence Group has figured out a way to silently spy on a botnet's command-and-control infrastructure, and finds that for-profit crackers are clearly winning the cat-and-mouse game against entrenched anti-virus providers. From the article: 'The lesson here is once you get infected, you are completely under the control of the botmaster. He can put whatever he wants on your machine, and there's no way to be 100 percent sure that the machine is clean. The only way to be [completely] sure the system is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.'"

Comments

Empty Words.

[Enoxice]

FTFA: "Stewart successfully started spying on the control channel, but there was not much to see."

In other words: nothing to see here, just remember to patch your computers.

Seriously, I was hoping for some real news, because I find malware incredibly interesting. Alas, TFA was a let-down...