Chapter

How Sinkholing Led to the Arrest of Mariposa Botnet Creators
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26:52 - 32:40 (05:47)

Sinkholing was used to take away all the Mariposa botnet domain names, providing law enforcement with information to arrest the culprits behind the attack.

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The speaker describes how they planned to take down multiple botnets under one umbrella called Mariposa by taking away all of their command-and-control domains in order to render them ineffective.
26:52 - 28:29 (01:36)
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Cybersecurity
Summary

The speaker describes how they planned to take down multiple botnets under one umbrella called Mariposa by taking away all of their command-and-control domains in order to render them ineffective.

Chapter
How Sinkholing Led to the Arrest of Mariposa Botnet Creators
Episode
94: Mariposa
Podcast
Darknet Diaries
The Mariposa botnet infected millions of computers worldwide and was traced back by cybersecurity researchers to its suspected originators using network traffic analysis and cooperation with internet service providers.
28:29 - 30:02 (01:32)
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Cybersecurity
Summary

The Mariposa botnet infected millions of computers worldwide and was traced back by cybersecurity researchers to its suspected originators using network traffic analysis and cooperation with internet service providers.

Chapter
How Sinkholing Led to the Arrest of Mariposa Botnet Creators
Episode
94: Mariposa
Podcast
Darknet Diaries
This episode tells the story of a security company's battle against a criminal botnet, the subsequent revenge of the botnet creators, and a devastating DDoS attack.
30:02 - 32:40 (02:37)
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Cybersecurity
Summary

This episode tells the story of a security company's battle against a criminal botnet, the subsequent revenge of the botnet creators, and a devastating DDoS attack.

Chapter
How Sinkholing Led to the Arrest of Mariposa Botnet Creators
Episode
94: Mariposa
Podcast
Darknet Diaries