Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out 156
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from the brief-respite-while-sauron-regroups dept.
itwbennett writes "Ninety of the 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight when two ISPs, named Troyak and Group 3, were taken offline. Whoever was behind the takedown 'just decided to knock out a large area of cyber-crime, and this was probably one of the easiest ways to do it,' said Kevin Stevens, a researcher with SecureWorks. As with the McColo takedown of just over a year ago, Troyak's upstream providers seem to have knocked it off the Internet, Cisco said in a statement. 'The ISP was "De-peered,"' Cisco said. 'Troyak's upstream network providers effectively pulled the plug on Troyak's router, refusing to transmit its traffic.'"
Niney!? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm not sure exactly how many Niney is, but it sounds like a lot!
Niney (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Words (Score:5, Funny)
Troyak and Group 3 were like car dealerships, who sold cars to evil customers, who ran car-botnets. The suppliers of Troyak and Group 3 decided to stop supplying cars to them, so they couldn't resell the cars.
Re:Niney!? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Niney!? (Score:4, Funny)
I think it's after twelfty.
Re:Words (Score:2, Funny)
He sucks at reading comprehension just like you're awesome at sarcasm.
Re:Violation of network neutrality? (Score:3, Funny)
Their network has been neutralized alright.
Re:Update: Troyak is back online (Score:4, Funny)
They say only sixeyate made it back online though...
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
> Imagine if we classified servers like we do countries that support terrorism?
Because that works so well...
Re:Words (Score:3, Funny)
this has to be the worst car analogy ever.
Re:PININ' for the FJORDS?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Niney!? (Score:1, Funny)
It comes after atey and before teny
Epic... Made me LOL real hard...
Re:Words (Score:5, Funny)
this has to be the worst car analogy ever.
You might say it's like the Yugo of car analogies.
Re:Words (Score:3, Funny)
this has to be the worst car analogy ever.
Yeah, it's like the AMC Pacer of car analogies.
Re:PININ' for the FJORDS?! (Score:5, Funny)
Mr Praline walks into a datacenter.
He walks to a desk where a sysadmin tries to hide below a tape rack.
PRALINE: Hello, I wish to register a complaint... Hello? Miss?
SYSADMIN: What do you mean, miss?
PRALINE: Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint.
SYSADMIN: Sorry, we're closing for patch Tuesday.
PRALINE: Never mind that my lad, I wish to make a complain about this hosting service what I leased not half an hour ago from this very datacenter.
SYSADMIN: Oh yes, the Kazakhstan Big Blue Blade Server package. What's wrong with it?
PRALINE: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's offline, that's what wrong with it.
SYSADMIN: No, no it's connecting, look!
PRALINE: Look my lad, I know a dead host when I ping one and I'm pingin' one right now.
SYSADMIN: No, no sir, it's not dead. It's syncing.
PRALINE: Syncing?
SYSADMIN: Yeah, remarkable host the Kazakhstan Big Blue, beautiful rackmounting job, innit?
PRALINE: The rackmountin' don't enter into it - it's stone dead.
SYSADMIN: No, no - it's just syncing.
PRALINE: All right then, if it's syncing I'll sync with it. (shouts into cabinet) Hello Khaki! I've got a nice piece of Cat 6 for you when you wake up, Khaki!
SYSADMIN: (jogging rack) There it blinked.
PRALINE: No it didn't. That was you yankin' the wire.
SYSADMIN: I did not.
PRALINE: Yes, you did. (unplugs wire from cabinet, shouts into the end of the ethernet cable) Hello Khaki, Khaki (whips it against counter) Khaki host, wake up. Khaki. (throws it in the air and lets it fall to the floor) Now that's what I call a dead host.
SYSADMIN: No, no it's stunned.
PRALINE: Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That host is definitely depeered. And when I leased it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its lack of connectivity wad due to it being tired and shagged out after delisting a porn site.
SYSADMIN: It's probably pining for the fjords.
PRALINE: Pining for the fjords, what kind of talk is that? Look, why did it refuse to connect the moment I got home?
SYSADMIN: The Kazakhstan Big Blue prefers connecting via SSL. Beautiful host, lovely rackmounting.
PRALINE: Look, I took the liberty of examining that host, and I discovered that the only reason that its lights were blinking in the first place was that there was a flashlight taped inside the case.
SYSADMIN: Well of course it was taped there. Otherwise it would roll out the back and voom.
PRALINE: Look matey (picks up cable) this host wouldn't voom if I put four thousand volts through it. It's bleeding offline.
SYSADMIN: It's not, it's pining.
PRALINE: It's not pining, it's unplugged. This host is no more. It has ceased to be. Its license has expired. This is a late host. It's a brick. Bereft of electrons, it rests in peace. And if you hadn't taped a flashlight inside the case, the only cycles it would ever see from here on out are re-cyclers. It's dropped out of DNS and unjoined the internet invisible. This is an ex-host.
SYSADMIN: Well, I'd better replace it then.
PRALINE: (to camera) If you want to get anything done in this country you've got to complain till you're blue in the mouth.
SYSADMIN: Sorry guv, we're right out of blade servers.
PRALINE: I see. I see. I get the picture.
SYSADMIN: I've got a PC running Windows.
PRALINE: Does it scale?
SYSADMIN: Not really, no.
PRALINE: Well, it's scarcely a replacement, then is it?
Re:Words (Score:3, Funny)
Re:YRO (Score:3, Funny)
Botnets are NOT content.
They are after a cigarette.
Re:Niney!? (Score:3, Funny)
It comes after atey and before teny
Did you really just spell "eight" like that?
Re:PININ' for the FJORDS?! (Score:4, Funny)