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Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out

Posted by timothy on from the like-the-energizer-bunny-in-more-ways-than-one dept.

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.'"

4 of 67 comments (clear)

  1. Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My Vi4gr4 supply is getting low.

  2. FIRST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST YAY

  3. This botnet has but one goal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KILL. ALL. HUMANS.

  4. Here's how to defeat Zeus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Zeus is the Greek god of the Sky right...and he throws lightning bolts. What can we do about that? Well, we can encase ourselves in rubber. Then his lightning bolts won't be able to hurt us.

    Accordingly, I'm now offering you a special on Rubber Suits. Protect yourself from Zeus!

    And coming soon, protect your computer from Zeus by encasing it in rubber too.