To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- On Thursday 16 March 2006 10:55, Gadi Evron wrote: > The issue is, the Bad Guys don't often need it as IRC works well. I personally think that IRC is going to become less popular type of C&C. We have already seen this trend begin as bot farmers move from vanilla IRCDs to heavily modified ones. P2P is the next step because, if implemented really well, it has no single point of failure. Without a single point of failure, a botnet is much much harder to take down. That being said, the lifespan of the IRC Botnet is still a minimum 5 years. Its here to stay. Anything that worked really well at one point in time (as botnets are or did, arguably) will stick around for a really long time. For example: I still catch exploit attempts against rpc.statd for redhat 6.2.
Long story short, I think we will see p2p botnets become popular in the next few years and surpass IRC as the method of C&C. Craig _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
