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Comments: 1 +-   New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm on Monday April 07 2008, @08:47AM ancientribe

Submitted by ancientribe on Monday April 07 2008, @08:47AM
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ancientribe writes "Storm is no longer the world's largest botnet: Researchers at Damballa have discovered Kraken, a botnet of 400,000 zombies — twice the size of Storm. But even more disturbing is that it has infected machines at 50 of the Fortune 500, and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques that hinder its detection and analysis by researchers.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1"
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  • Just how Kraken is infecting machines is still unclear, but Royal says the malware seems to appear as an image file to the victim. When the victim tries to view the image, the malware is loaded onto his or her machine. "We know the picture... ends in an .exe, which is not shown" to the use

    The things are getting better and better at defeating AV technology, but when you look at them, they rely on the same age-old security hole: The user.

    That is kind of a relief, come to think about it. Even the most feared v

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