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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Georg Wicherski wrote:
> P2P to be the future of botnets? Yes, give it one more year to convince the
> kiddies. Use the Skype P2P network? Most uncertainly.
P2P among other such mediums are the past and the future of botnets on
different levels.
The issue is, the Bad Guys don't often need it as IRC works well. If we
limit our fight to what-a-mole though, continually KILLING The problem
when it becomes annoying enough after ignoring it so it became annoying
in the first place, we will push the Bad Guys to evolve once again in a
broader fashion than previously... much like with terrorism,
spam, etc. through history.
More complex (or simple) control channels are here for a long time now,
IRC is still the most used one, though.
Botnets are interesting in that whenever you make the control channel more
complicated, your equally raise the difficulty of maintaining them and
make them easier to find.
This is less of a thumb rule and more of yet another difficulty to
over-come.
Gadi.
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