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To Catch a Botnet: How Mariposa Was Busted

The Mariposa Working Group infiltrated the command-and-control structure of the Spanish botnet to monitor the communication channels that sent information from compromised systems back to the hackers who are running the botnet. The relentless rise in COVID-19 cases is battering already frayed healthcare systems and ransomware criminals are using the opportunity to strike. Underground marketplace pricing on RDP server access, compromised payment card data and DDoS-For-Hire services are surging. Read the full article.

Source: https://threatpost.com/catch-botnet-how-mariposa-was-busted-030310/73626/

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