Forwarded from: Dancho Danchev <dancho.danchev (at) gmail.com> Excerpt : "Earlier this month, the controversial BBC purchase of a botnet and modifying the infected hosts in the name of “public interest” sparked a lot of debate on the pros and cons of their action. Condemned by certain security vendors, and naturally, at least from guerrilla PR perspective, applauded and encouraged as a awareness raising tactic by others, the discussion shifted from technical to moral and legal debate, leaving a single question unanswered - what is the name of the botnet that the BBC rented and what’s so special about it? Until now. Let’s take a peek inside the BBC “Chimera Botnet” offered for rent by a Russian Cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) vendor." http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3045 Regards -- Dancho Danchev Cyber Threats Analyst/Blogger http://ddanchev.blogspot.com http://blogs.zdnet.com/security http://windowsecurity.com/Dancho_Danchev http://twitter.com/danchodanchev _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue Mar 31 2009 - 01:06:54 PDT
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