New botnet army on the march

[Humpty]

There's a new botnet (a network of malicious nodes, known as "bots") gaining strength, and it's successfully infiltrating companies by bypassing traditional antivirus products.

 

According to this news story on Dark Reading, security startup Damballa is tracking the spread of a new botnet, dubbed MayDay, that, according to the company, has already infected thousands of hosts -- almost all located in North America, Kelly Jackson Higgins reports.

 

What's concerning about this botnet, aside from the apparent difficulty in identifying it, is that it has successfully infiltrated some -- so far -- unnamed and large networks. Also, its ability to communicate, presumably to other infected nodes, from behind the corporate firewall, makes it appear more agile than other peer-to-peer botnets.

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