DDoS Attacks with BillGates Linux Malware Intensify

  • 8 April 2016
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XOR botnet authors migrate to using BillGates malware

 
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Apr 7, 2016 22:40 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu Over the past six months, security researchers from Akamai's SIRT team have observed a shift in the cyber-criminal underground to using botnets created via the BillGates malware to launch massive 100+ Gbps DDoS attacks.
 
The BillGates malware is a relatively old malware family aimed at Linux machines running in server environments. Its primary purpose is to infect servers, link them together in a botnet controlled via a central C&C server, which instructs bots to launch DDoS attacks at their targets.
 
The malware has been around for some years, and due to its (irony-filled) name is probably one of the most well-known Linux-targeting malware families.
 
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Bill Gates face has to be red for sure!!!!
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Quite the interesting article here..thanks Jasper.. hmmm BillGates Malware? Not good at all for Linux servers.
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Awwwwww, how unfair...what has he ever done to them (or perhaps that question is probably left unanswered... ;) ). I think that SteveBalmer malware would be more appropriate...LOL

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