NZ telco hires admitted botnet operator

By Michael Field, Sydney Morning Herald TelstraClear, Telstra’s New Zealand subsidiary, has hired one of the worlds best known hackers smh.com.au — a teenager known as “Akill”. Owen Thor Walker, a 19-year-old who became the subject of a US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Operation Bot Roast”...

Researchers spot router-based botnet worm

Researchers at DroneBL have spotted signs of a stealthy router-based botnet worm zdnet.com targeting routers and DSL modems. The worm, called “psyb0t,” has been circulating since at least January this year, infecting vulnerable embedded Linux devices such as the Netcomm NB5 ADSL modem and launchi...

BBC defends, explains botnet purchase

After taking some heat for its decision to buy a botnet and use it to send spam and launch a denial-of-service attack against a site owned by Prevx, the BBC has released an editor’s note to explain and defend the broadcast experiment. Here’s the gist of the Beeb’s defense, via BBC Click executive...

BBC paid 'a few thousand dollars' for botnet

In a statement on Monday, the BBC said that its decision to purchase and use a botnet to espose the malware epidemic had been “in the public interest”. “It was not our intention to break the law,” the BBC told ZDNet UK on Monday. “There is a powerful public interest in demonstrating the ease with...

BBC botnet buy: What were they thinking?

By Roel Schouwenberg As Dancho Danchev pointed out, the BBC leased itself a botnet zdnet.com. I couldn’t quite believe it when I read it. The BBC, arguably one of the very best TV producers in the world, surely should have known better? There are so many things wrong about this that I hardly know...

ezbounce Detection

ezbounce, an IRC bouncer, is running on this port. It proxies communications between IRC clients and servers. This may be done to allow clients without direct network access to connect to servers or to hide client addresses. Legimate use of such proxies is rare. They are often installed by...

IRC Bouncer (BNC) Detection

An IRC bouncer aka BNC is running on this port. It proxies communications between IRC clients and servers. This may be done to allow clients without direct network access to connect to servers or to hide client addresses. Legimate use of such proxies is rare. They are often installed by attackers...

BNC Detection

BNC, an IRC bouncer from The BNC Project, is running on this port. It proxies communications between IRC clients and servers. This may be done to allow clients without direct network access to connect to servers or to hide client addresses. Legimate use of such proxies is rare. They are often...

Generic Botnet Client Detection

Binary data 4442.prm...

Generic Botnet Server Detection (PING)

Binary data 4441.prm...

Generic IRC Client Detection / Generic Botnet Detection

Binary data 4440.prm...

Generic Botnet Client Detection

Binary data 4400.prm...

Generic Botnet Server Detection (HTTP Client)

Binary data 4401.prm...

Code injection

Multiple off-by-one errors in VooDoo cIRCle before 1.1.beta27 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection loss or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 DNS name response of the exact length as a buffer; or a long 2 channel name, 3 partyline channel name, or unspecified vector...

CVE-2007-2651

Multiple off-by-one errors in VooDoo cIRCle before 1.1.beta27 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection loss or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 DNS name response of the exact length as a buffer; or a long 2 channel name, 3 partyline channel name, or unspecified vector...

CVE-2007-2651

CVE-2007-2651 affects VooDoo cIRCle prior to 1.1.beta27. Multiple off-by-one errors can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (connection loss) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted BOTNET packets, specifically through a DNS name response matching the buffer length or via ...

CVE-2007-2651

Multiple off-by-one errors in VooDoo cIRCle before 1.1.beta27 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection loss or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 DNS name response of the exact length as a buffer; or a long 2 channel name, 3 partyline channel name, or unspecified vector...

Hacking basics series of on the web Trojan review-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A total T Web Trojans has been the domestic network of popular things. The state notes that according to friends, this kind of thing in a foreign country is not popular.） The reason the more popular of the Golden State think of the following reasons: 1. Web Trojans in a variety of network threats...

Generic Botnet Client Detection

Binary data 3858.prm...

For MS06-0 of 4 0 of botnet attacks to reproduce jianghu-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to the ongoing track of the virus an anti-virus expert Introduction, In addition to targeting the MS06-0 4 0 the Windows Server service vulnerability, this latest round of virus attacks also make use of the Windows System of the other three worm holes. With the month of August to appear...