Trojan: Torpig

Torpig is a trojan for Windows platforms...

How to Steal a Botnet

Botnets have become a major problem in the last few years, with massive networks such as Storm, Nugache and others comprising hundreds of thousands of infected machines. This video lays out the foundation of the problem and explains the efforts of researchers to take over the Torpig botnet...

Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation

Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a ten-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack .pdf, the...