Malware Honeypot Projects Merge 45
rebvend writes "eWeek is reporting that two of the biggest honeypot projects (mwcollect and nepenthes) have merged operations. A new meta-portal at mwcollect.org will become a top-level community covering malware collection efforts while nepenthes will become the official tool for malware collection."
Evolution (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Evolution (Score:1)
Re:Evolution (Score:2)
Re:Evolution (Score:1)
No Windows version ? (Score:1, Insightful)
Ironic that you need Linux/BSD to collect malware for a Windows platform, wouldnt it make more sense to have a windows version too ?
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:2, Interesting)
but most malware uses what are called "stub installers" which are usually small downloaders that call the rest of the malware components once infection has begun
sure you can use WINE but then all the cracker has to do is a
if(fileExists("c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll")
execute(payload)
its probably quite trivial for the cracker to see wether the exploit is running in an (em|sim)ulated enviroment rather than the real thing (other than vmware)
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:4, Interesting)
Greetings from the world of tomorrow! (Score:2)
OMG, you're from the future?
And we use base-32 numbers in the future?
Man, that is such an appropriate interesting mod.
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:1)
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:1)
Hence Forth.. (Score:2)
Bound to happen (Score:4, Funny)
As Winnie the Pooh would say... (Score:2)
Honey... oh my gracious...
MS Strider honeymonkey project (Score:5, Informative)
What Is Strider "HoneyMonkey"? [microsoft.com] is a differnet take on the problem. /. reported on the project... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/224 0222 [slashdot.org]
Re:MS Strider honeymonkey project (Score:1)
Your powers combined.... (Score:2, Funny)
Captain Hardrive
He's our hero
he's going to take malware
down to zero
The New Malware Team (Score:1)
Go, go, go New Malware Team
Go team, go team, team team team
Whose that newest Malware Team?
The New Malware Team
MW Collect is fast
Also it is from the past
Not just fast but from the past
MW Collect!
Nepenthes has all the powers of a King
Plus all the power of Superman,
Also it's a robot
Ain't it cool? Nepenthes you rule!
Hon-ney-pot beats you up
Ho-ney-pot beats you up
Who does it beat up? You!!
Hon-ney-pot!
Citizens, never fear
Crazy do-good f
Re:The New Malware Team (Score:1, Funny)
Wait, is this thread the honeypot???.
I'm surely not the only slashdotter... (Score:2)
Re:I'm surely not the only slashdotter... (Score:1, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(electronics ) [wikipedia.org]
The term "honeypot" is often understood to refer to the British children's character Winnie-the-Pooh, a stuffed bear who was lured into various predicaments by his desire for pots of honey.
During the Cold War it was an espionage technique, which inspired spy fiction. The term "honeypot" was used to describe the use of sexual entrapment to gain information. In a common scen
Re:I'm surely not the only slashdotter... (Score:2)
That's what we always called 'em when I was growing up on the farm.
Re:I'm surely not the only slashdotter... (Score:2)
Meaning of nepenthes (Score:1)
In case anyone was wondering, nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous or insectivorous pitcher plants. More information about them can be found here [wikipedia.org].
They're both doing the same thing... (Score:2)
But possibilities of being paid off or court-ordered increase, which sucks.
Overall I'd say... net loss.
speaking of honeypots (Score:1)