Researcher Who Helped Take Down Waledac Talks Crimeware

Author: Donald Sears
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Thorsten Holz, researcher at Vienna University of Technology, whose team not only participated in the recent takedown of the Waledac botnet, but released an interesting paper earlier this year, summarizing their findings based on 33GB of crimeware data obtained from active campaigns talks to Dancho Danchev of ZDNet. Read the full article. [ZDNet]

Thorsten Holz, researcher at Vienna University of Technology, whose team not only participated in the recent takedown of the Waledac botnet, but released an interesting paper earlier this year, summarizing their findings based on 33GB of crimeware data obtained from active campaigns talks to Dancho Danchev of ZDNet. Read the full article. [ZDNet]

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