Archive for March, 2011

Skunkx DDoS Bot Analysis

March 14, 2011 by Jose Nazario

Lest you think all of the DDoS bots we focus on come only from China, we found one that appears to be from the US. We’re calling this bot “Skunkx”. We have not yet seen the bot’s attacks in the wild, however, and so we do not know its favored victim profiles. We also do [...]

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JKDDOS: DDoS bot with an interest in the mining industry?

March 8, 2011 by Jeff Edwards

Today we document JKDDOS, the moniker we have been using for yet another malware family that specializes in DDoS attacks.  Looking back through our malware zoo, we observed our first JKDDOS sample as early as September 2009.  Since then, we have analyzed almost 50 unique JKDDOS samples, the most recent of which we acquired in [...]

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