New Thor botnet nearly ready to be sold, price $8,000

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New Thor botnet nearly ready to be sold, price $8,000
Botnet	Thor
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol	P2P
Date	2012 / 14-03-2012
Editor/Conference	SPAMfighter
Link	http://www.spamfighter.com/News-17520-New-THOR-Botnet-Nearly-Ready-to-be-Sold-Price-$8000.htm spamfighter.com (spamfighter.com Archive copy)
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Abstract

“ One fresh botnet named 'Thor' is being built whose architecture is decentralized and which uses peer-to-peer technology. This botnet, understandably, is about to be complete and will soon get traded on several illegal hacking forums for $8,000, published Help Net Security dated March 6, 2012.

Notably, the term botnet is described for one network of PCs, which attackers hijack and control. The hijacking is done via a 'bot' i.e. a malware, used for infecting the computers. The bot-infected PCs then constantly exchange messages with the network's remaining infected PCs alternatively with many regulators of bots for getting the botnet-holder's commands.

Botnet purchasers can have additional modules but must pay more, the modules being a form snatcher, mass mailer, password/keylogger capturer, DDoS malware, and sophisticated bootkiller. They can as well develop more modules of personal choice.

Bibtex

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   author = {},
   title = {New Thor botnet nearly ready to be sold, price $8,000},
   date = {14},
   month = Mar,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.spamfighter.com/News-17520-New-THOR-Botnet-Nearly-Ready-to-be-Sold-Price-$8000.htm spamfighter.com}},
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