Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'

bbc ^ | 21 April 2009 | Darren Waters

[JoeProBono]

Almost two million PCs globally, including machines inside UK and US government departments, have been taken over by malicious hackers. Security experts Finjan traced the giant network of remotely-controlled PCs, called a botnet, back to a gang of cyber criminals in Ukraine. Several PCs inside six UK government bodies were compromised by the botnet.

[JoeProBono]

[D-fendr]

I don’t see why the servers can’t be targeted and brought down.

[gcraig]

Last night we had web servers in the dmz under attack by bots. They look for weakness in typical M$FT hacks but these just result in http 500 response codes from SunOne web servers running on Solaris. We were thinking about developing a reverse attack proxy; writing automation to detect one of these attacks and then blast the rogue source IP address with a denial of service attack.