Baldr is able to grab an entire file's contents for transfer to its command-and-control (C2) server. It is interesting to note that the malware's developers have not tried to obfuscate the data ...

Because the botnet's automated login attempts aren't directed at the WordPress login panel, but instead at the WordPress XML-RPC authentication mechanism, changing a site's admin panel URL won't help.

According to the botnet’s administrative panel, more than 12,500 PCs have been infected, and these bots in turn have helped to discover at least 1,800 Web pages that are vulnerable to SQL ...

The control panel is the Web application that runs on the command-and-control server and is used to receive and send data to ZeusVM-infected computers. It’s needed to manage the botnet.

Cerf told his listeners that approximately 600 million computers are connected to the Internet, and that 150 million of them might be participants in a botnet—nearly all of them unwilling victims.

The DOJ says their access to the botnet’s control panel revealed that Qakbot had been used to infect more than 700,000 machines in the past year alone, including 200,000 systems in the United ...