By Ken Dunham, Jim Melnick
ISBN-10: 1420069063
ISBN-13: 9781420069068
Initially designed to sabotage or annihilate web content, automated "Bots" are more and more utilized in mass spamming occasions, fraud, extortion, id robbery, and software program robbery. concentrating on the malicious use of bots and bot herder capability and motivations, Malicious Bots offers a far wanted a source for realizing the scope, sophistication, and felony makes use of of bots and the way to extra proactively defend opposed to them. Accessibly written, yet with enough technical element, the e-book introduces botnet threats and the way they functionality and examines the pinnacle bot assaults opposed to monetary and govt networks during the last 4 years to bare the who, how, and why at the back of them.
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6 A Trip Across the Pond On February 5, 2003, accompanied by a police sergeant and an additional investigator for CATCH, we flew to the City of London and met with the detectives from the National High-Tech Crime Unit. We then drove to the City of Darlington near the northern end of Britain, where two of the suspects lived. On February 6, 2003, I accompanied the detectives from the NHTCU as they served a search warrant on the house of Jordan Bradley, while my fellow investigator accompanied additional NHTCU detectives as they simultaneously served a search warrant on the second suspect, Andrew Harvey, in the City of Durham.
16 Bulletin board posting from Sitexec. 17 E-mail from Sitexec. the TK IRC server and had had contact with one of their members. 17). I examined all the e-mails that were sent by the suspect and identified several common IP addresses that were used by the suspect to send the e-mails. One of the IP addresses belonged to a school district in northern California. I went to the school district administrative offices in northern California, and they were able to identify which school the IP address was assigned to and specifically to a bank of computers in one particular classroom.
6 Peering Inside the IRC Botnet In a recent study, German and Chinese researchers from the University of Mannheim and Peking University utilized an extensive honeynet that spanned 16 Chinese provinces to track more than 3,200 botnets in the wild. They also assessed that the IRC-based approach to command and control for botnets was becoming less and less popular with botmasters, who were switching to other protocols that were beginning to replace them. 8 percent. 7 Post-IRC-Based Bots One of the protocols that has begun displacing IRC-based bots is the HTTP-based bot.
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