Researchers are expanding the scope of their search for new methods to prevent users from becoming unwitting victims of botnets. One pair of researchers this week will unveil a new technique they ve developed to help Web sites protect users whose machines already have been compromised by bots. The methods are based on their analysis of the infamous Zeus Trojan and the way that it exfiltrates data and communicates with its C&C servers. The key concept behind their work is that they assume that all PCs are compromised, so their goal is to make whatever data the bot is trying to extract useless.
Source: https://threatpost.com/researchers-debut-botnet-resistant-coding-techniques-110810/74649/