Mevade Botnet

The Mevade Botnet, also known as Sefnit or SBC, is a massive botnet. Its operators are unknown and its motives seems to be multi-purpose.[1]

In late 2013 the Tor anonymity network saw a very sudden and significant increase in users, from 800,000 daily to more than 5,000,000. A botnet was suspected and fingers pointed at Mevade. Trend Micro reported that it's Smart Protection Network saw a tor module being distributed to Mevade trojans.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Debbie Cohen-Abravanel (November 6, 2013). "Mevade Botnet Attacking Enterprises & Governments".
  2. ↑ "Massive spike of Tor users caused by Mevade botnet".
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