Behind the Scenes of the Botnet Epidemic

2009 saw many, many new botnet outbreaks and advancements in their criminal management. Throughout the year Damballa tracked thousands of distinct criminal operated botnets and identified millions of newly compromised enterprise systems each day. This week I’m going to share some of our findings...

Jose Nazario on Botnets and the History of DDoS Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks about the Mafiaboy attacks, the history of DDoS attacks and the botnet epidemic. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

The Root of the Botnet Epidemic

Over the course of a few days in February 2000, a lone hacker was able to bring some of the Web’s larger sites to their knees, using just a few dozen machines and some relatively primitive software to cripple Yahoo, eBay, Etrade, Amazon, ZDnet and others for hours at a time. No one knew it at the...

How to Take Down a Botnet

The botnet problem has reached epidemic levels in recent months, with the continued growth of large-scale botnets, as well as the identification of smaller, more targeted networks around the world. But researchers have been taking steps to disrupt botnets of late, with some notable successes, as...