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Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

The Malware Hunter initiative will help researchers and firms to secure their devices from malware infection.

 

                                 

 

By Jahanzaib Hassan  3rd May 2017

 

Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter.

 

What does it do?

 

The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out signals similar to what a Trojan would send to its control-and-command (C&C) center. If the impersonated signals produce a response from recipient computers, then they are considered as C&C servers. Primarily, the crawler is hunting down remote administration tool (RAT) control centers which affect the user’s webcam system wherein the camera starts recording a video or audio.

 

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