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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