EP008

Dr Ro-Botnets – Episode 008 Shownotes

Music provided by: Denis Kreynin https://soundcloud.com/denis-kreynin

 

Episode malware taxonomy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware for details on each below)

• Virus

• Trojan (based on trojan horse from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War)

• Worm (touched on last time)

• Rootkit

• Ransomware

 

Sony rootkit story:

https://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/top-ten-terrible-tech-products-49293700/9/

 

TechRepublic suggestions on how to detect if your infected: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-ways-to-detect-computer-malware/

 

Episode compromise taxonomy

• Websites & phishing

• waterhole attack (https://www.infoworld.com/d/security/watch-out-waterhole-attacks-hackers-latest-stealth-weapon-218716)

• drive-by download (https://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/glossary/drive-by-download-sites.aspx)

Scrap value of a PC (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/the-scrap-value-of-a-hacked-pc-revisited/)

 

Denial of service (https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-015)

 

Flippant article on how to build a botnet (https://readwrite.com/2013/07/31/how-to-build-a-botnet-in-15-minutes)

 

LOIC (https://gizmodo.com/5709630/what-is-loic)  <!– Do you hate Gizmodo? –>

Annonymous vs Visa (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/12/visa-under-attack-from-anonymous-payment-processors-as-wikileaks-war-escalates/)

 

indicators of compromise (https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/top-15-indicators-of-compromise/240162469)

 

Fast flux DNS (https://www.pctools.com/security-news/fast-flux-botnet/)

How Content Delivery Networks work (https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2011/11/29/how-content-delivery-networks-cdns-work/)

 

Portmanteau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau)