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"The World's Biggest Botnets" (darkreading; mentions Damballa)


From: Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:08:15 +0000

...

You know about the Storm Trojan, which is spread by the world's largest
botnet. But what you may not know is there's now a new peer-to-peer based
botnet emerging that could blow Storm away. 

"We're investigating a new peer-to-peer botnet that may wind up rivaling
Storm in size and sophistication," says Tripp Cox, vice president of
engineering for startup Damballa, which tracks botnet command and control
infrastructures. "We can't say much more about it, but we can tell it's
distinct from Storm."

...

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=138610&WT.svl=news1_1
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