A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers | WIRED
The researchers found what they believe is a hitherto unknown botnet that uses exceptionally advanced metrics to covertly target millions of servers around the world.
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Botnet uses fully written, proprietary software to infect servers and integrate them into a peer-to-peer network, researchers from security firm Guardicore Labs say reported Wednesday. P2P (peer-to-peer) botnets distribute their administration among many infected nodes rather than relying on a control server to send commands and receive stolen data. Without a centralized server, botnets are generally harder to spot and harder to shut down.
