To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- if you're going to do that, I think it would be wise to also build a list of good contacts at each company to send them to, since a lot of the abuse@, etc. email addys are just worthless to contact at many companies
Kyle Frank Bulk wrote: > What about a counter-bot that identified the botnet, all its nodes, and > notified the respective ISPs. ;) > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Quoting Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>It might be an idea to built a "counter" botnet, that will act in our >>favor when a botnet is found. We could have a bot infiltrate the >>existing net, and attempt to issue a number of kill/uninstall >>commands, so the net will eat itself. >> > > > This was tried a while back. Max Butler, aka 'Max Vision' did 18 months in > jail for a worm that found vulnerable DNS servers and downloaded patches as > necessary. Very clever. Very illegal, inspite of his noble motives. > > Max was the original operator of the arachnids and whitehats.org sites back > in the day. Before he disappeared into the California legal system. > > An update on his saga can be read here: > > http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/2002/Sep/0003.html > > Googling for "max vision" will turn up lots of drama on the guy's life > between 1996 - 2001. He was a hero and martyr for lots of us white > hats. This case is one reason most white hats keep very low profiles > and use lots of aliases. > > > > brack > > ------------------------------------------------- > Email solutions, MS Exchange alternatives and extrication, > security services, systems integration. > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > botnets mailing list > To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets > > _______________________________________________ > botnets mailing list > To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets > > > _______________________________________________ botnets mailing list To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
