[tor-talk] Botnets through Tor

Claudio claudio at shadowserver.org
Sat Dec 8 16:50:53 UTC 2012


Hello fellas,

As a follow-up to the discussion we started on Twitter, I wanted to
start this thread here as well to get the discussion going.
The main point of the discussion were:
- What can be done to stop botnets abusing Tor for concealing its
infrastructure?
- What kind of impact would a large adoption by malware writers of Tor
and Hidden Services have on the Tor network and its usability? Is it a
serious threat to the project?
- Is there something the security community and botnet researchers can
do to help out?

Regards,
C.

(You can find some contextual info here
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/14etfq/skynet_a_torpowered_botnet_straight_from_reddit/
)


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