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Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction?
From: "Alex Lanstein" <alanstein () FireEye com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:34:29 -0700
Are there any Finjan folks on this list? Is this the one you're talking about? POST /BwKqrtnzY7AguJ0L99rQft/index.php HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Win32) Host: 95.129.145.24 Content-Length: 271 Connection: Keep-Alive Pragma: no-cache .~...{.'?..t..b........T.=$0..{..HzM{YJi.2..=.9w(Fj.+3..P.zRB...R...=...`V8.w..!....N....Jh{.n..r:...U.^.W.....t.I.....[..n.'1ISq..t..#{...%+7K.IK.M .v.x..5/,..I^.&H$i Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Content-Length: 44 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 .....{.'5..t..M.cM.Q,.q..v....{..HzMtYJi.2.. Paul M. Moriarty wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/22/world/worldwatch/entry4960984.shtml "The FBI and British law enforcement authorities are trying to hunt down hackers responsible for the largest botnet (robot network) ever known to the IT world, according to a California-based Internet security company. Finjan's Chief Technology Officer has told the Financial Times that six people based in Ukraine are suspected of compromising 1.9 million computers worldwide in just two months — many of them in the U.S. " [...] "However, Rupert Goodwins editor of CBSNews.com's sister site ZDNet.com, says Finjan has offered no hard evidence to back up their claim of discovering the world's largest-ever botnet. " [...] So, another new, big botnet or RSA publicity-seeking hype? - Paul - _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
-- Regards, Alex Lanstein Network/Systems Architect FireEye, Inc. http://blog.fireeye.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Paul M. Moriarty (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? David Harley (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Paul Ferguson (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Paul M. Moriarty (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? B.K. DeLong (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Alex Lanstein (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Gadi Evron (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Paul M. Moriarty (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Larry Seltzer (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? David Harley (Apr 23)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Julio Canto (Apr 23)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? David Harley (Apr 23)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Paul M. Moriarty (Apr 22)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? David Harley (Apr 23)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? Gadi Evron (Apr 25)
- Re: Finjan botnet story - fact or fiction? David Harley (Apr 25)