Even if he does, a well-entrenched botnet is a prize unto itself. I wouldn't put it past the govts of the world to try and hijack it for their own purposes.
On Dec 18, 2016 8:50 AM, "Kevin" <kevinsisco61...@gmail.com> wrote: > This guy is a jerk and deserves to fry along with his botnet. > > > > On 12/18/2016 12:11 AM, grarpamp wrote: > >> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-firm >> s-almost-brought-down-massive-mirai-botnet/ >> >> "Following a failed takedown attempt, changes made to the Mirai >> malware variant responsible for building one of today's biggest >> botnets of IoT devices will make it incredibly harder for authorities >> and security firms to shut it down," reports Bleeping Computer. >> Level3 and others" have been very close to taking down one of the >> biggest Mirai botnets around, the same one that attempted to knock the >> Internet offline in Liberia, and also hijacked 900,000 routers from >> German ISP Deutsche Telekom.The botnet narrowly escaped due to the >> fact that its maintainer, a hacker known as BestBuy, had implemented a >> domain-generation algorithm to generate random domain names where he >> hosted his servers. >> Currently, to avoid further takedown attempts from similar security >> firms, BestBuy has started moving the botnet's command and control >> servers to Tor. "It's all good now. We don't need to pay thousands to >> ISPs and hosting. All we need is one strong server," the hacker said. >> "Try to shut down .onion 'domains' over Tor," he boasted, knowing that >> nobody can. >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
