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		<title>Eric.freyssinet: Text replacement - &quot; www.cert.pl&quot; to &quot;&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Text replacement - &amp;quot; www.cert.pl&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Eric.freyssinet: 1 revision imported</title>
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		<updated>2015-02-07T14:29:41Z</updated>

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		<title>Eric.freyssinet at 16:08, 23 February 2013</title>
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		<updated>2013-02-23T16:08:01Z</updated>

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|Type=White paper&lt;br /&gt;
|Link=http://www.cert.pl/news/6744/langswitch_lang/en www.cert.pl&lt;br /&gt;
|NomRevue=CERT Polska Blog&lt;br /&gt;
|Date=2013-02-21&lt;br /&gt;
|Editor=CERT Polska&lt;br /&gt;
|Year=2013&lt;br /&gt;
|Botnet=Virut&lt;br /&gt;
|Abstract=At the end of January and the beginning of February 2013 NASK (Research and Academic&lt;br /&gt;
Computer Network) { the .pl ccTLD Registry { and its security team CERT Polska&lt;br /&gt;
took over 43 .pl domains used to control the Virut botnet and to spread malicious&lt;br /&gt;
applications. These actions were preceded by a detailed legal and technical analyses and&lt;br /&gt;
were supported by Spamhaus and VirusTotal. Some of these domains, even outside .pl&lt;br /&gt;
domain, were an important part of the botnet infrastructure. As a result of these actions,&lt;br /&gt;
all traffic from infected computers to the Command and Control servers were redirected&lt;br /&gt;
to the sinkhole server controlled by CERT Polska. The action cripples criminals ability&lt;br /&gt;
to control infected machines and allows to gather information about infected machines.&lt;br /&gt;
This data is shared with all interested partners. From the gathered data, on average 270&lt;br /&gt;
thousand unique IP addresses connect to the botnet server every day, which is a good&lt;br /&gt;
estimation of the botnet size at the day of takeover. Almost a half of infected machines&lt;br /&gt;
are located in three countries: Egypt, Pakistan and India. Poland is located at the 19th&lt;br /&gt;
place on the infection scale. This report presents the actions taken by NASK, methods&lt;br /&gt;
used to gather data and their analysis, which offer additional insight into Virut activity,&lt;br /&gt;
including a connection to the sale of fake antivirus applications.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<author><name>Eric.freyssinet</name></author>
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