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Botnet herders are adopting system administration tools to push keyloggers and screen grabbers. What next, herders managing to ITIL standards?
The New York Times reports Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, identified a group in Russia centrally managing a botnet and using Coreflood to steal information. The pattern of attack starts with infecting an administrator's machine and then using admin tools on that machine to infect others.
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Dan Sullivan is a systems architect with 20 years of IT experience that includes engagements in enterprise security, application design, and systems architecture. His experience includes a broad range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, government, retail, gas and oil production, power generation, and education. Dan’s security-related project work has ranged from requirements analysis for enterprise information security to designing and implementing security for database applications and enterprise portals. Dan has written about information security and other enterprise information management topics for Business Security Advisor, DM Review, Intelligent Enterprise, and E-Business Advisor. You can contact Dan at: dan_sullivan@realtimepublishers.net
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