17.01.2014 - 14:27 [ Technet ]

Tackling the Sefnit botnet Tor hazard

Win32/Sefnit made headlines last August as it took the Tor Network by storm. Tor is an open source project for online anonymity and is commonly used to browse the Internet anonymously. Around August 19, 2013, millions of infected computers running Win32/Sefnit installers are believed to have been woken up and given instructions en masse, to download and install a Sefnit component using the Tor Network for C&C communication. Based on the Tor Network’s connecting-user estimates, evidence suggests this resulted in more than four million Sefnit-installed Tor client services pushed in just over two weeks, as shown in Figure 1.