Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1

Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1
Thorsten Holz, Frederic Raynal

This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and attacker techniques are all discussed in an ethical manner. Part one of two.

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AT LEAST! 2006-02-01
Alexey Vesnin

At least one more good article about a real security and not about burrowing deeper into the lawyers' ass... There's NO any "innocent third party" who was used to attack you - it's GUILT because of leaving the system opened for subvertions. There's no "steal from one who stealed something from you" ...

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Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1 2006-02-01
Anonymous

Great article. You make a great point about being more proactive, rather than reactive. Looking forward to next week!...

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Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1 2008-10-15
Angelo Cire

The only MAJOR issue I had with this article was your statement very early on that many hackers are very curious. That is true, but only, for the most part, of script kids and non-objective-driven hackers. Real hackers that want to GET something from your system don't go randomly executing binary fo...

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