Kraken botnet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kraken botnet was the world's largest botnet as of April 2008[update]. Researchers say that Kraken infected machines in at least 50 of the Fortune 500 companies and grew to over 400,000 bots.[1] It was estimated to send 9 billion spam messages per day. Kraken botnet malware may have been designed to evade anti-virus software, and employed techniques to stymie conventional anti-virus software.[2]
In April 2008, Damballa released instructions for removing Kraken malware from computers[3] and a list of IPs comprising the Kraken botnet. The list shows that on April 13, 2008, there were 495,000 computers in the Kraken botnet.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Higgins, Kelly Jackson (7 April 2008). "New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm". Dark Reading. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ^ Goodin, Dan (7 April 2008). "Move over Storm – there's a bigger, stealthier botnet in town". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/07/kraken_botnet_menace/. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ^ Damballa, Remediating Hosts Compromised by the Kraken BotArmy, 2008-04-16, retrieved 2008-04-16
- ^ Damballa, Kraken Information, 2008-04-16, retrieved 2008-04-16
[edit] External links
- Fisher, Dennis, Kraken botnet balloons to dangerous levels, SearchSecurity.com, Apr. 7, 2008, retrieved 2008-04-07
- Orion, Egan, There's a new botnet worm on the loose: Kraken seeks to sink the Fortune 500, The Inquirer, April 7, 2008, retrieved 2008-04-07
- Neri, Kraken Botnet, la Botnet mas grande del Mundo, retrieved 2008-04-07, en español.
- Pierce, Cody, Owning Kraken Zombies, a Detailed Dissection, 2008-04-28, retrieved 2008-04-28
- Amini, Pedram, Kraken Botnet Infiltration, 2008-04-28, retrieved 2008-04-28
|
||||||||
 |
This malware-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
