Kraken botnet
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The Kraken botnet was the world's largest botnet as of April 2008. 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]
See also
- Computer worm
- Malbot
References
- ↑ Higgins, Kelly Jackson (7 April 2008). "New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm". Dark Reading. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ↑ Goodin, Dan (7 April 2008). "Move over Storm – there's a bigger, stealthier botnet in town". The Register. 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
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
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