Cybercriminals Building New, Stealthier Networks 107
ancientribe writes "Cybercriminals are adopting a new method of hiding and sustaining their malicious Websites and botnet infrastructures so they'll be harder to detect, called "fast-flux," according to an article in Dark Reading. Criminal organizations behind two infamous malware families — Warezov/Stration and Storm — in the past few months have separately moved their infrastructures to so-called fast-flux service networks. The article says bad guys like fast-flux not only because it keeps them up and running, but also because it's more efficient than traditional methods of infecting victims' machines." I'm not exactly sure why this is new/different than the more well known open relay proxy networks.
Block TCP Port 80 (Score:5, Insightful)
The bit about blocking TCP port 80 is troubling. I run a small web-site for learning purposes and to share info with family and friends. I don't especially like the possibility of having to ask or pay extra to have port 80 opened on my end.
Re:Block TCP Port 80 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Block TCP Port 80 (Score:4, Insightful)
And what the other guy said about proxies is valid too. It's very common for outbound corporate firewalls to block non-port-80 traffic for web browsing.
Re:Block TCP Port 80 (Score:4, Insightful)
Two years ago there would have been a frosty piss and a two-page discussion on how this douchebag OP was wrong to use the word "cybercriminals" (or cyberfoo for that matter), and how his article reads like a page out of the script to this flaming piece of shit. [imdb.com] Where did we go? Since when did Slashdot become Eternal September?
That's right point-bearing masses, mod me flamebait because nobody else has the balls to stand up to this kind of terrible quality news. FFS look at the damn article! It says nothing! It literally states something that was true ten years ago when the botnet was invented! News for NERDS? more like News for NEWBS.
Christ alfuckingmighty.
Re:Block TCP Port 80 (Score:2, Insightful)
JUST SAY IT! "Home PCs" = Windows OS (Score:4, Insightful)
There. I've said it. Why hide the truth?
Are journalist thinking "everyone knows it is Windows that is so vulnerable to mere emails, so there's no use in embarrassing Microsoft"? I don't think so... any more than they "just happened" to get Ferrari laptops for writing good articles about VISTA.