A major event took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month. No, I’m not referring to the Miss Universe Pageant that also happened at the same time at the Hilton in Sao Paulo. I’m referring to the Futurecom held at the Transamerica Expo. Futurecom is definitely the premier technology exposition in Brazil and in my [...]
Arbor’s ASERT team has a paper at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference in Barcelona, Spain. The paper, by Arbor’s Jeff Edwards and Jose Nazario, is titled A survey of Chinese DDoS malware and is based on some of the detailed analysis we did as part of the development of the ATLAS intelligence feed or AIF. [...]
Background The intention of this entry is to profile some elements of the Aldi Bot in order to provide value for the security operations community and malware research community. Aldi Bot is a newer inexpensive DDoS bot that is growing in popularity. Recent data (September 30 2011) suggests that there are at least 50 distinct [...]