Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds

nandemoari writes "When security officials decide to 'go after' computer malware, most conduct their actions from a defensive standpoint. For most of us, finding a way to rid a computer of the malware suffices — but for one computer researcher, however, the change from a defensive to an offensive mentality is what ended the two year chase of a sinister botnet once and for all. For two years, Atif Mushtaq had been keeping the notorious Mega-D bot malware from infecting computer networks. As of this past November, he suddenly switched from defense to offense. Mega-D had forced more than 250,000 PCs to do its bidding via botnet control."

Re:Command & Control

[vlm]

No person in their right mind would do such a thing.

Which makes me all the more surprised that no one has tried.

Re:PR "Stuff" from Fireeye

[Anonymous Coward]

I wrote it on the fly. Sometimes it all just comes to you when you're "in the zone". The community as a whole benefits when the trolls are somewhat literate and original. Like most Slashdot trolls, I used to copy and edit dirty stories from online before posting them, but that method is much more obvious and unfulfilling.

Slashdot is the foremost science and technology website and so its trolls should also held to higher standards of, um, trolling.

In related news ....

[PPH]

... botnet sends android back in time to kill researcher's mother.