March 3, 2010, 5:14PM

To Catch a Botnet: How Mariposa Was Busted

More details follow the news of the Spanish botnet Mariposa and its owners being caught. The Mariposa Working Group infiltrated the command-and-control structure of Mariposa to monitor the communication channels that relayed information from compromised systems back to the hackers who run the botnet. Read the full article. [The Register]


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