Taking Over the Torpig Botnet
A few months back a team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara have hijacked the infamous Torpig botnet for 10 days. They released a report (PDF) that describes how that was done and the data they collected. They observed more than 180K infected machines (this is the number of actual bots, not just IP addresses), collected 70GB of data stolen by the Torpig trojan, extracted almost 10K bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the underground market, and examined the privacy threats that this trojan poses to its victims.
Unfortunately the intended audience of the documents are rather technical; a plain-english version designed for business leaders and decision makers to understand the threat would have been ideal. In any event, the complexity built into the Torpig botnet demonstrates the true focus and determination of online criminals.
Read the abstract here:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/
View the technical report here:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/torpig.pdf
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