Bot name reptile bot   Author Unknown     Written in C     Description In reptile bot many of the typical RAT functions were implemented, simple and straightforward. A rootkit is included as well (I think it it’s the FU rootkit). You find a sniffer, ftp server, process handler, service handler, [...]

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      RAT name ri0t bot   Author Unknown     Written in C     Description ri0t bot is a quite complete implementation of a bot. It is controlled via IRC, it extracts CD keys and serial numbers of many different applications/games, it sniffs key strokes, network traffic, extracts account information from installed [...]

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On Wednesday, the ShadowServer Foundation took the wraps off a revamped statistics page, showing how far the three main variants of Conficker have spread and the degree to which the world’s networks are infected. More than 12,000 networks, as represented by their autonomous system numbers (ASNs), show signs of infection by Conficker. The ShadowServer Foundation [...]

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Every day, approximately 89.5 billion unsolicited messages (i.e. spam) are sent by computers that have been compromised and are part of a botnet. Botnets – apart from inundating out inboxes with spam – can also be used for ulterior purposes such as executing DDoS attacks or hosting websites, so understanding the “modus operandi” and size [...]

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      Name Realmbot   Type RAT, Bot     Author Unknown     Written in C/C++     Description This is a variant of the REalmbot created by Lindem in 2006. Also here many of the typical bot functions were implemented. Services control, user control, process control, key logger (in a rather unelegant [...]

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