Twitter transformed into botnet command channel

["Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

Jose Nazario, the manager of security research at Arbor Networks,
stumbled upon a Twitter account that was being used as part of an
improvised update server for computers that are part of a botnet.

The account, which Twitter promptly suspended, issued tweets
containing a single line of text that looked indecipherable to the
naked eye. Using what's known as a base64 decoder, however, the
dispatches pointed to links where infected computers could receive
malware updates.

Read more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/13/twitter_master_control_channel/


saqib
http://kawphi.blogspot.com

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