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

Re:Well I'm sold.

[ae1294]

Can I host my e-commerce site on Zeus?

I'm not sure if this is funny or dreadfully insightful... Most data centers can't keep it up for a single year but then you have schmucks who keep these bot-nets up seemingly forever.

Are we looking at the future of serious web-hosting?

Re:Well I'm sold.

[timmarhy]

it's almost like you've come up with a method of distributing data amongest "peers", so when one peer goes offline others continue to send data giving you redundancy. i think we should call it b2b - bot 2 bot.