Botnets may begin using encryption?
I'm kind of surprised it hasn't already been done...
Joris Evers writes in C|Net News:
In their quest to retain control over hijacked PCs, cybercriminals will add encryption to their malicious software to avoid detection and removal, one expert predicted Monday.
In the near future, bots will include encryption to hide their presence from security and network sniffing tools often used to detect their presence, said Adam Meyers, an information assurance engineer at SRA International speaking at the Computer Security Institute conference here.
"We will see encrypted sessions, and as things become encrypted, we'll have a more difficult time investigating botnets," Meyers said.
posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2005 06:56:00 PM
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