Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out

harryjohnston writes "The Register points out that the takedown of a significant number of Zeus command-and-control servers, which we discussed earlier, was a short-lived victory, as about one-third of the affected servers were back on the net in less than 48 hours." Adds itwbennet: "Just hours after network connectivity to Troyak was severed the ISP peered with a new upstream Internet service provider named Ya. The next step will be to 'de-peer' Troyak from its new service provider, either an ISP named Nassist or its upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, said a researcher familiar with the matter. 'We have taken some of their territory, they are trying to out flank us,' the researcher said via IM. 'We are going to win this one — we have 'em boxed in.'"

Comments

Well I'm sold.

[Anonymous Coward]

How much are they charging per month for use of a command-and-control server? Can I host my e-commerce site on Zeus?

Do you have to share the command and control server with other users? Or do they have a "private command server" option?

(On a side note- will twittering help my business?)

Re:Here's how to defeat Zeus...

[Cryacin]

Aparently if your father had encased something else in rubber, we wouldn't have to listen to your drivel...