Botnet

But the attackers treat that as a feature.

Botnet knows residential proxies, DNS hijacking, beachheads on lands.

What are we going to do about this? How are we going to send out a kill order to these devices?

It's a tough one, brother, because you and I have been talking about this for years, for years, even before we started the podcast.

Salady Botnet Dismantled After eight years of crypto theft, CrowdStrike and the U.S. Department of Justice have dismantled Salady, a malware operation that ran for eight years and stole Bitcoin and Ethereum from infected computers.

According to reporting from Decrypt, the takedown isolated more than 15,000 compromised machines spread across multiple countries.

It is a rare, clean win against the kind of organized cybercrime that quietly targets ordinary crypto holders rather than exchanges or protocols.

CrowdStrike handled the technical side of identifying and isolating infected endpoints, while the DOJ provided the legal authority to seize infrastructure and coordinate across jurisdictions.

Isolating 15,000-plus machines is the hard part.

Botnets survive by being distributed.

So cutting off the command channel and severing infected hosts from the operators is what actually stops the bleeding.

The eight-year runtime tells you how these operations persist.

Yeah.

Emma's Bot Network on the IM.

I'm a construction worker on a job site in Springfield, Ohio.

ICE raided our site today, grabbed one of the framers.

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Census found an open directory holding MooBot's botnet source code alongside a denial service panel with 16 registered accounts and 32 attacks logged on the day they looked.

That Botnet was taken down in 2024, but it looks like it might still be active.

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Rapid7 is tracking dark web markets selling social security numbers belonging to executives and board members.

All this time, screenwriter David Kaplan's been working on his treatment for the 25th floor film company for the big new movie.

By now, he's calling it Botnet, hacker slang for a network of virus-infected computers.

The film company bosses like his work, and now they want a face-to-face at their offices on the outskirts of Moscow.

The doors are closing.

Not only did Benny and the other hackers create a fully functioning film company to launder their profits, they were then going to use that film company to make a movie about the very criminal enterprise that was making those profits.

I mean, 10 out of 10 for balls, right? Oh, and according to Keith, they were actively punting this film around Hollywood.

We do know that they were shopping a screenplay called Botnet, which is basically the life story of Benny.

So it was being shopped around to different film companies.