Peerbot: catch me if you can

2007-03-01

Elia Florio

Symantec Security Response, Ireland

Mircea Ciubotariu

Symantec Security Response, Ireland

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

In early 2007, Trojan.Peacomm (a.k.a. the ‘Storm trojan’) demonstrated that legitimate P2P protocols can be used effectively to coordinate virus networks. Elia Florio and Mircea Ciubotariu explain how.

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