Tag: citadel
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Paper: Prosecting the Citadel botnet – revealing the dominance of the Zeus descendent: part two
Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal study the malware’s behaviour when ran on a physical machine. Last week, we published the first part of the paper ‘Prosecting the Citadel botnet – revealing the dominance of the Zeus descendent’. In it, researchers Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal looked at the design and implementation of the…
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Paper: Prosecting the Citadel botnet – revealing the dominance of the Zeus descendent: part one
Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal dissect botnet primarily used for financial fraud. It is unlikely that anyone still thinks that cybercrime is performed by 16-year-old kids who write short pieces of code that wreak havoc all over the world, but if you do still hold that belief, it won’t hurt to take a look…