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Trojan.Whitewell: What’s your (bot) Facebook Status Today?
Andrea Lelli, Symantec Security Response 2009-10-31

Sure we have heard a lot about bots and botnets. One key component of a botnet is the command-and-control (C&C) server, which as we know can come in several flavours (IRC, Web pages, newsgroups, custom servers, etc.). Yet, here comes Trojan.Whitewell, which, being tired of old C&C channels, decides to pick up Facebook as a coordinator for the C&C server.




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