Re: [tor-talk] Mirai Botnet Relocates To Onions

[Hildred Castaigne <durindals917@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even if he does, a well-entrenched botnet is a prize unto itself. I
wouldn't put it past the govts of the world to try and hijack it for their
own purposes.

On Dec 18, 2016 8:50 AM, "Kevin" <kevinsisco61784@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This guy is a jerk and deserves to fry along with his botnet.
>
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> On 12/18/2016 12:11 AM, grarpamp wrote:
>
>> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-firm
>> s-almost-brought-down-massive-mirai-botnet/
>>
>> "Following a failed takedown attempt, changes made to the Mirai
>> malware variant responsible for building one of today's biggest
>> botnets of IoT devices will make it incredibly harder for authorities
>> and security firms to shut it down," reports Bleeping Computer.
>> Level3 and others" have been very close to taking down one of the
>> biggest Mirai botnets around, the same one that attempted to knock the
>> Internet offline in Liberia, and also hijacked 900,000 routers from
>> German ISP Deutsche Telekom.The botnet narrowly escaped due to the
>> fact that its maintainer, a hacker known as BestBuy, had implemented a
>> domain-generation algorithm to generate random domain names where he
>> hosted his servers.
>> Currently, to avoid further takedown attempts from similar security
>> firms, BestBuy has started moving the botnet's command and control
>> servers to Tor. "It's all good now. We don't need to pay thousands to
>> ISPs and hosting. All we need is one strong server," the hacker said.
>> "Try to shut down .onion 'domains' over Tor," he boasted, knowing that
>> nobody can.
>>
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