InfoSec Daily Podcast

 
ISDPodcast Episode 168 for July 8, 2010.  In this episode we interview Paul Royal, who  is a research Scientist at Georgia Tech Information Security Center.  Paul has performed research that would indicate that since April of this year the Kraken botnet (son-of-Kraken) has infected an estimated 318,058 machines.  This podcast was hosted by Rick Hayes and the intern, Karthik Rangarajan.

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Interview with Paul Royal:
Paul Royal (http://www.damballa.com/downloads/press/Kraken_Response.pdf) is a research Scientist at Georgia Tech Information Security Center.  Paul has performed research that would indicate that since April of this year the Kraken botnet (son-of-Kraken) has infected an estimated 318,058 machines.  This means that it’s about half as big as the original was at its height in the middle of 2008.  The malware responsible for the new Kraken is being spread by a separate botnet that uses the Butterfly framework.

http://ether.gtisc.gatech.edu
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-08/Royal/BH_US_08_Royal_Malware_Analyst%27s_Blue_Pill_Slides.pdf
http://code.google.com/p/azurema/