ResNet Symposium 2009
Organizing a Cyber-Army: Modern Botnet Architecture
| Presenter(s): | Brandon Enright |
| Date and Time: | Saturday, June 27, 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Stewart Hall 108 |
| Description: | When futurists in the 60's looked forward to the 21st century and extrapolated the exponential growth of technology they saw flying cars and vacation trips to the moon. Technology growth didn't slow down but certainly took an unexpected turn. Instead of flying cars we got the Internet, and with it, exponential growth and sophistication of malware and the huge underground economy of spam and fraud that malware supports. In the last few years there has been a media frenzy regarding so-called "Super Botnets" comprised of (supposedly) millions of hosts and organized into a vast network called a "botnet". Bots like Stormworm, Waledac, Mega-D and recently Conficker have all been reported to have millions of infections. What isn't reported in the media though is how incredibly sophisticated the architecture of these botnets really are. This presentation will focus in extreme detail on how the big botnets work including aspects of how their P2P (peer-to-peer) and C&C (command-and-control) mechanisms work. Hopefully you'll leave thinking that in terms of sophistication next to one of the big botnets, a flying car is just a children's toy. |
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