SDBOT IRC Botnet Continues to Make Waves

[Peaches]

Dec11, 2009

SDBOT IRC Botnet Continues to Make Waves

11:06 am (UTC-7) | by Loucif Kharouni (Threats Analyst)

SDBOT malware have been around since 2004. Most of the bots that use Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol communication such as AGOBOT, IRCBOT, RBOT, and others have been around as early as 2001 yet these kinds of malware rarely attract attention due to their ability to silently operate. These bot malware are neither heavy email spammers nor resource hogs. They hardly ever disrupt normal computer activities—say, Internet browsing—so their victims never notice that their computers have been infected.

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