Nitol DDoS botnet discovered in China

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Nitol DDoS botnet discovered in China
Botnet Nitol
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date 2012 / 20 avril 2012
Editor/Conference Reed Exhibitions
Link http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/25296/nitol-ddos-botnet-discovered-in-china/ (Archive copy)
Author Anonyme
Type

Abstract

McAfee Labs has uncovered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet, dubbed Nitol, operating in China.

The Nitol trojan that is installed on computers is written in Visual C++ with a lot of bugs in the code, apparently written by an untrained programmer, McAfee researcher Itai Liba explained in a blog. The samples examined by Liba and other McAfee researchers were not packed and easy to reverse engineer. The botnet itself is relatively small and not widely known.

Bibtex

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