How we can protect themselves? -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 12/18/16, Flipchan <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Mirai Botnet Relocates To Onions To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, December 18, 2016, 9:24 AM There is alot of botnets that run over Tor , there is alot of assholes. But if You can identify THE malware You can pretty easy find the source code and then THE default cred to shut it down. grarpamp <[email protected]> skrev: (18 december 2016 06:11:17 CET) >https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-firms-almost-brought-down-massive-mirai-botnet/ > >"Following a failed takedown attempt, changes made to the Mirai >malware variant responsible for building one of today's biggest >botnets of IoT devices will make it incredibly harder for authorities >and security firms to shut it down," reports Bleeping Computer. >Level3 and others" have been very close to taking down one of the >biggest Mirai botnets around, the same one that attempted to knock the >Internet offline in Liberia, and also hijacked 900,000 routers from >German ISP Deutsche Telekom.The botnet narrowly escaped due to the >fact that its maintainer, a hacker known as BestBuy, had implemented a >domain-generation algorithm to generate random domain names where he >hosted his servers. >Currently, to avoid further takedown attempts from similar security >firms, BestBuy has started moving the botnet's command and control >servers to Tor. "It's all good now. We don't need to pay thousands to >ISPs and hosting. All we need is one strong server," the hacker said. >"Try to shut down .onion 'domains' over Tor," he boasted, knowing that >nobody can. >-- >tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] >To unsubscribe or change other settings go to >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Sincerly flipchan - LayerProx dev -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
