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May 14, 2016 08:00 pm
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Police Reveal Tactics For Fighting Botnets
Botnet herders have sophisticated "disaster recovery" plans, according to speakers at a recent cybersecurity conference, with many splitting their botnets into smaller herds, making them more resilient. In addition, kierny writes: Researchers say these backup botnets are tough to detect, until gangs have already spooled them up and put them to use in major campaigns... "What we're seeing is the bad guys are starting to learn from this," said Steven Wilson, head of the European Cybercrime Center at Europol -- the EU's law enforcement agency... Wilson said authorities are now gathering tremendous amounts of data by "sink-holing" -- forcibly redirecting the infected endpoints onto servers controlled by law enforcement. And he also reports that authorities have also successfully mined the blockchains of bitcoin transactions for information. Eamonn Keane, A detective from a cybercrime unit with the Scotland Police, added that authorities are also infiltrating dark net forums to bust bitcoin-using criminals. "Are law enforcement in there? Absolutely... We have a mandate to protect you in the real world; increasingly it's moving into the online environment."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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