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Full Disclosure: Re: Its time to get serious about Storm Worm / RBN

Re: Its time to get serious about Storm Worm / RBN

From: coderman <coderman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:37:23 -0700

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:49 AM, mcwidget <mcwidget_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Aint that the whole problem with Storm tho? The lack of CC boxes? Without
> that target, how do you effectively shutdown something like this?

the target is the distributed hash table routing metric used for
decentralized C&C. kademlia, chord, and DHT's in general are fragile;
they trade efficiency for resilience against a coordinated attacker,
presuming the redundancy adequate for random (read: not intentional)
failure is sufficient.

if you want to take down storm, take down the C&C. it will cost you
$100/mo for a dedicated server with modest bandwidth. implemented the
attack is left as an exercise for the reader...

:P

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