Botnet hijack: Inside the Torpig malware operation
Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet (also called Sinowal or Mebroot) to find a 10-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.During the botnet hijack, the researchers exploited a weakness in the way the bots tried to locate their C&C servers and found an underground online crime operation collecting about 70GB of stolen data over just ten days.