Bot herders hide master control channel in Google cloud

Cyber criminals' love affair with cloud computing just got steamier with the discovery that Google's AppEngine was tapped to act as the master control channel that feeds commands to large networks of infected computers. The custom application was used to relay download commands to PCs that had already been infected and made part …

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Posted Monday 9th November 2009 20:16 GMT

Carter Cole

this will happen more and more

i think that this is only beginning when i have thought about writing a bot the services that many provide are ideal for use with a botnet. what if they start adding stenography to the images they upload to Facebook and the profile looks real and everything looks natural but its all a bots page to keep its settings saved and relay commands

Posted Monday 9th November 2009 21:06 GMT

Anonymous Coward

actually ...

I predict blackhat cloud computing will eventually -replace- infecting end users ... as cloud services get more commonplace, it gets viable to do a lot of things now squirreled away on people's computers on there - with the advantage as noted - if your provider is big and boisterous enough, who's going to be able to get past them to take it down ?

Ah yes, we live in interesting times ...

Posted Tuesday 10th November 2009 06:05 GMT

Anonymous Coward