Short-Lived Victory in Zeus Botnet Disruption
Earlier this week, The New New Internet reported on the disruption of Internet access to computers that made up the Zeus botnet. However, the victory appears to be short-lived, as security researchers have already found that a third of the computers have been re-linked to command servers.
Thirty of the approximate 100 servers that were disrupted have now come back on-line after the ISP found a new provider. This allowed some of the cyber criminals to reconnect with the infected computers in the Zeus botnet.
“The problem is that as soon the C&Cs are reachable from the internet again, the cyber criminals can regain the control of their botnet and can safely move the stolen data away from those AS’s to a safer place or to a backup server,” a researcher connected to the Zeus Tracker service told The Register.
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