Nirbot: targeted attacks get personal

2007-05-01

Lysa Myers

McAfee, USA
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Nirbot gains its notoriety primarily from the cat fight in which its author has been engaged. Although keenly aware of the descriptions and blog entries posted about his creations, the author seems not to be so well versed on the naming conventions used within the AV industry. Lysa Myers shares the details of this technologically unremarkable, yet reasonably successful bot.


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