Necurs botnet information

The Necurs botnet is a distributor of many pieces of malware, most notably Locky. Around June 1, 2016, the botnet went offline, perhaps due to a glitch...

A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)...

MalwareTech discovered Necurs's bots consistently polled the DGA until a C&C server replied with a digitally signed response. This signified Necurs was no longer...

and Necurs botnet, and wrote his own botnet tracking service that could join the botnet and monitor what operations the controllers of the botnets were...

the botnet and develop appropriate responses. The malware itself was also difficult to remove, owing to a rootkit contained in it. The rootkit, Necurs, was...

widely documented that the Emotet authors have used the malware to create a botnet of infected computers to which they sell access in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service...

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infection in which REvil was a suspect was in fact the work of Evil Corp. Botnet Conficker Gameover ZeuS Operation Tovar Timeline of computer viruses and...