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Spying on bot nets becoming harder

Friday, October 13th, 2006

More of a blog type post then something you normally find here, but this article is more then worth your attention.

SecurityFocus has a very interesting article that explains how dronerunners are turning their backs on using IRC servers to control their drone-networks. Not really a bad thing, they are supposed to deliver a platform for people to have fun and chat on! But a downside is that people hunting the botnets down have increased difficulty in finding them.

The dronerunners are more and more relying on HTTP botnets.

Thanks to Stefano who passed the URL to me.

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Finnish Paedophiles Found Victims on IRC

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Helsinki Police have arrested nine men in and around Helsinki, of which three have been tried and convicted, and the rest remain suspects.

They have been sexually exploiting thirty children in the range six to seventeen years old in hundreds of separate crimes.

One of the suspects is a teacher who abused his position. In other cases the suspects used IRC and message boards to make contact with children.

The nine arrested were not organized, although some of them had contact with each other.

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FreeNode’s Lilo Passed Away After Accident

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

A global notice on the FreeNode network announced the death of FreeNode admin Lilo. “On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode’s lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and passed away in hospital on the 16th”

Lilo was being treated at the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit in Houston, where he died the 16th.

Those who would like to pass on their condolences can do so at condolences@freenode.net.

Sirvulcan passed this tragic news to IRC-Junkie.

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Zotob-coders Locked Behind Bars

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

The coders of the Zotob worm have heard their sentence in a Moroccan court. Farid Essebar, a 19-year-old programmer got 2 years of prison, and his accomplish Achraf Bahloul 1 year. A third individual is awaiting sentence in Turkey.

The two got arrested just 2 weeks after the worm started to spread. The worm infected systems from companies like CNN, The Financial Times, ABC and The New York Times. Systems infected were used to collect credit card data and perform DDoS attacks. The systems were being controlled from IRC channels.

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EFnet Round Robin Blues

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

“Over the past few days, the dude who runs the ‘irc.efnet.net’ round robin decided that he was tired of running it, and removed all the servers from the list”, Doug announced on EFnet.org.  “It now only sends users to his one IRC server. Some admins were clearly upset, and one even called for the delink of the dude’s server.”

EFnet’s loosely structure allows admins to own a broad range of domains such as efnet.net, efnet.org, efnet.info and efnet.us and give them the freedom to do with the domain how they feel like.

Once the roundrobin was changed, Doug setup a new roundrobin on EFnet.org.

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