Hmmm.... it would appear that our good friends at McAfee have forgotten the definition of botnet... let me help them out a bit.... :-)
bot·net noun /ˈbätˌnet/ botnets, plural 1. A network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:45 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Fight! Fight! On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:20:39 PDT, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said: > http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/shady-rat-is-not-a-botnet Well.. she says: "Speaking of technical arguments, apparently Mr. Kaspersky has gotten it in his head that Shady RAT is a botnet." And then continues with: "that we only know of 72 companies/organizations victimized through one command & control server, out of hundreds or more used by this adversary." OK, I'll bite, if it was a C&C server, *what do we call the thing being controlled* if it wasn't a botnet? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
