FBI’s Operation: Bot Roast
June 19th, 2007 Drazen Drazic Posted in Forensics, cyber crime |
The FBI’s Operation: Bot Roast, claims to now have identified “about 1 million” botnet infected systems in the US. See also: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june07/botnet061307.htm.
The announcements say all the right things, but the question as to how much substance is behind them is somewhat questionable in my opinion. The intentions may be there, so lets see what impact to botnet activity this program has. It would be interesting to know how the 1 million systems were identified. Have I missed something in my readings?
Other than that, there is some good introductory information in here for individuals and businesses alike.
Related Links:
http://www.dailyinfosec.net/
http://beastorbuddha.com/category/cyber-crime/
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:17 am
You should take a look at some of ShadowServer.org’s botnet stats.
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stats.Statistics
TinyURL here http://tinyurl.com/yw26xy
Try 3.3 million.
D.