Curt Wilson's Posts

A DDoS Family Affair: Dirt Jumper bot family continues to evolve

April 5, 2012 by Curt Wilson

Previous blog entries and analysis by others in the security community have shined a light upon the Dirt Jumper DDoS bot. Dirt Jumper continues to evolve (version 5 appears to be the newest) and a variety of other associated bots packages have emerged over time to include Simple, September, Khan, Pandora, the Di BoTNet and [...]

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Attack of the Shuriken: Many Hands, Many Weapons

February 7, 2012 by Curt Wilson

A visual sample of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS or DoS) attack tools & services compiled by Curt Wilson – Research Analyst, Arbor Networks ASERT There are a variety of popular Denial of Service attack tools that have received a fair amount of attention by the security research community, but there are many other attack tools [...]

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DDoS Watch: Keeping an Eye on Aldi Bot

October 5, 2011 by Curt Wilson

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 [...]

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