Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2

Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2
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 two of two.

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Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2.1 2006-02-06
Alexey Vesnin

Nice! But I consider that there's another part of the task that is uncovered by this article - the ID data gathering. It's good to STOP 'em attacking you and it's right, but you need to know who they REALLY are. I used a PHoneWorm or something like that code - a simple binary that collects a dial-up...

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Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2 2006-03-16
Sean

This isn't quite a productive comment, just an annoyance:

"1 of ever 12 e-mails was infected with the worm"

should read "every" :)...

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Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2 2007-10-21
Anonymous

These articles were so above my head. Could someone who please knows how to do these things (attack the attacker) please visit my blog hackednation.com. I am in desperate need of someone knowledgable to stop some very persistent evil hackers intent on destroying me (that may be a bit hyberbolic)....

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