[tor-talk] Mirai Botnet Relocates To Onions

[Kevin]

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-firms-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.


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