March 12, 2010, 7:09AM

Botnets Find New Internet Homes Quickly

The takedown of 100 servers used to control Zeus-related botnets may be a short-lived victory, security researchers said after discovering that about a third of the orphaned channels were able to regain connectivity in less than 48 hours. The resurrection of at least 30 command and control channels came after their ISP found a new upstream provider to provide connectivity to the outside world, autonomous system records showed. Read the full article. [The Register]

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