The Exatel SOC team is an elite unit fighting on the “front line” of the war against cybercrime. It monitors client security, assesses how cybercriminals operate, develops security measures and restores the functioning of attacked systems on a daily basis. In the “Conversations with a botnet” report, you can read an engrossing story of the “dialogue” with botnet control mechanisms, that is, a network of infected computers.
Conversations with a botnet brain
Breaking down and analysing malware sent via e-mail uncovers a fascinating scenario of cybercriminal activity. Exatel SOC experts managed to contact a botnet-controlling “brain”, and to eavesdrop on the commands given to zombie-computers.
Reading the report will surely be mandatory for any cybersecurity specialist. However, anyone interested in new technologies and ICT market reality will be able to learn a lot from it. Upon downloading it, you can read about how malware bypasses standard safeguards and masks its activity. Indeed, one could say that this is a kind of a technological spy novel.
