Researchers and law enforcement officials have been working on taking down and crippling various botnets such as Rustock, Storm, Conficker and others for years. In this video Ryan Naraine talks with Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Tillmann Werner about the Conficker botnet and options for controlling these networks. Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon. Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces.
Source: https://threatpost.com/mitigating-and-taking-down-botnets-040611/75113/