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What a Botnet Looks Like
Esther Schindler writes "CSO has an annotated, zoomable map of real botnet topologies showing the interconnections between the compromised computers and the command-and-control systems that direct them. The map is based on work by security researcher David Voreland; it has interactive controls so you can zoom in and explore botnets' inner workings. Hackers use botnets for spamming, DDoS attacks and identity theft. One recent example is the Storm botnet, which may have comprised 1 million or more zombie systems at its peak. As with any networking challenge, there are good (resilient) designs and some not-so-good ones. In some cases the topology may be indicative of a particular botnet's purpose, or of a herder on the run."
To get a good look at a botnet they say, "You need to upgrade your Flash Player". How true!
No calls now, I'm
here's a photo of a botnet. Ok, it's a small botnet but if the botnet was a semi you wouldn't see the computers, now would you?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
all of the IP addresses. Can I get that in a text format? I want to add them to my hosts file.
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There are lots of well constructed stars, where a handful of master nodes control several slaves. Each slave knows two or three masters for redundancy. That's good design, and I expected it.
But what's hilarious is that there are some ip addresses that are slaves to four or five different botnets. I wonder what the owners of those machines think?
"Man, the internet sure is slow today!"
"I need a new computer, this one's all slow."
"Sweet! Five botnets and counting! I'm part of something! I belong!"
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
No, it sucks. I zoomed in to close and saw my IP!
There are fields, Neo. Endless fields where bot beings are no longer born. Are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it and then I saw the fields with my own eyes...
One of the nodes backendportal.info is registered to Horatio Nelson!
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Was it just me, or did anyone else imagine parent as speaking in the voice of max headroom?
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Wait, 127.0.0.1 is in there. That is my IP address!
allow people to register with information like:
Registrant Contact:
elnopic
elnopic elnopic (elnopic@elnopic.com)
+1.2435543
Fax: +1.5555555555
123 sdhdsa g
asdf, AD 34215
US
Do they not even try to verify this information?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
There must be too many bots - I can't even get it to render! All I get is a white page with no nodes and no links :\
;) )
Either that or they've rendered the botnet on a white background in apple white with light grey lines.
(i.e. it seems to be Slashdotted
That looks alot like the map of our network where I am emplo... oh crap...
Seriously, is it supposed to look like that?