Round up of Botnet articles...

...must be something in the air, but you can't move for Botnets at the moment. You might have already seen the writeup by Brian Krebs highlighting keylogger nastiness and a sophisticated Botnet scam - if you haven't, go check it out. It's a four page juggernaut of doom.

After that, check out my interview with Internetnews.com. From the article:

"We had a tip-off from an individual known as RinCe," Chris Boyd, security research manager at FaceTime, told internetnews.com. "With his assistance, we were able to map the activities of these groups in great detail. From there, it was a case of analyzing all the files, making the right connections, finding compromised servers and gathering more data."

Boom, headshot.

It also looks at the recent Botnet uncovered by Arbor Networks, and the common practice of herding a bunch of discovered Bots from one network to another before the plug can be pulled. Those naughty little whippersnappers.

Finally (if you're not already sick of the word "Bot", closely followed by "net"), check out this two page funfest via Techweb on the Bot attack analysed by FaceTime with the able assistance of RinCe. Humorous quote time:

"They're using the kitchen sink approach times one hundred," said Boyd.

Oh yeah, baby! Gotta' watch those kitchen sinks!

"The hacking world is one big market place, trading stuff for stuff like the black market," said RinCe in an IM interview with Boyd that was posted to the SpywareGuide Web site. "If you get your hands on something amazing, like a new IE exploit, you're a god in the hacker world - you could ask for anything, or any price."

Too true.

Well, enjoy. You may well see more on this before the story slithers off to the backwaters of the Interweb...