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Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open"

Posted by timothy on from the after-honeynets-let's-try-bugzappers dept.

Heise Security reports that a 'team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using software developed and at least partially disclosed by Georg Wicherski, Tillmann Werner, Felix Leder and Mark Schlösser. However it seems in practice the elimination process would fall foul of the law.'

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  1. Re:WWBD? by frankie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He'd use his detective skills to learn the identities of the cyrillic mobsters who own the botnet. The next night he'd incapacitate a number of guards, then dangle the bosses headfirst off of an onion-domed cathedral until they give him all their passwords. And lastly fight a corrupt former-KGB super-enforcer.

    So your philosophy may not be very applicable here.