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polonus
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fast flux net a formidable weapon in the hands of bot net herders!
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July 31, 2007, 04:17:58 PM »
Hi malware fighters,
We already knew that blacklists would not function, now a new form of dns using thousands of servers makes taking down bot nets into an impossible task, bot herders looked to spammers how to do this. Cybercriminals are increasingly using an advanced method of hiding and sustaining their malicious Websites and botnet infrastructures -- dubbed "fast-flux" -- that could make them more difficult to detect:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11473
and here:
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=129304&WT.svl=news1_1
about this form of cybercrime works:
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/ff/fast-flux.html
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