Talk:Bredolab botnet

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Did you know... that when Dutch officials took control of the BredoLab botnet, they were able to use it against itself?

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Rename

Should clearly be renamed to just "BredoLab". It's not "Windows XP OS", it's "Windows XP"; it's not "Land Rover Discovery Car", it's just "Land Rover Discovery". --193.254.155.48 (talk) 17:04, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mistakes

Bredolab is also known as BManager, Oficla is known as MyLoader. They are not the same bot, but are often used by the same groups or used when selling bots to different groups. Also it was sold publicly so it is very unlikely that it belonged to only one group. Version 1.4 was sold for 400$ in late 2008 (It has also been made public). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.132.84.164 (talk) 21:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Several corrections

The article claims that 143 C&C servers were seized. However, this is the total number of servers that were seized at Leaseweb and believed to be owned by criminals, only six of them were C&C servers of the Bredolab botnet. The total number of 30 million infected computers is also too high, they monitored 3 million instructions to the botnet in a month and extrapolated this to 30 million instructions in ten months. There can be several instructions to the same bot however, and the botnet does not grow linearly either. The total number of bots is unknown. Lastly, the botnet was not dismantled, only the C&C servers were seized. The botnet itself was for a large part taken over by other criminals a few days later. In fact, you cannot take a botnet down by taking down the C&C servers, because the bots will still remain infected. See also [1] and [2] (in dutch). --Michielderoo (talk) 20:39, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding removed subheader

The "Dismantling and aftermath" subsection of the article was removed (unnecessarily in my opinion). In effect, and I know this does not matter too much because the link still directs to the article, this table has a link that anchors to the now-gone header. If nobody will revert to the headered version, I think the link on Botnet should be fixed.

What was the purpose of removing it? The article doesn't look any better without it. 70.8.251.81 (talk) 02:04, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, will put the header back. --Michielderoo (talk) 08:47, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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