Analyzing a Fresh Variant of the Dorkbot Botnet

At McAfee Labs, we have recently observed a new variant of the Dorkbot botnet. Dorkbot is a well-known bot, famous for its various capabilities including backdoor, password stealing, and other malicious behavior. Dorkbot relies on social networking as its infection vector. In this post, we offer our analysis of this new variant.

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