In the case of Koobface, the command and control servers that orchestrated these attacks ultimately gave them away.
Damballa discovered the botnet in March and has been tracking its communication with command-and-control servers around the world.
Sourcefire also provides realtime feeds of known malicious hosts and command and control servers so beaconing can be blocked.
Their sensors record network traffic and use a feed of data about threat sources associated with command and control servers.
They were given access to the command and control servers of Flame.
Once injected, the malware would contact one of the many command and control servers around the world and download additional modules as needed.
Once security companies were able to identify the control servers for the attack, they could identify and block the attack, and the zombies went quiet.
One day, while exploring open directories on one of the command and control servers I noticed that there were files in a directory that was normally empty.
Internet security firm FireEye has spotted some 450, 000 infected computers from the Srizbi botnet - alleged to account for as much as half of all the spam on Earth - trying to "phone home" and reach their command and control servers.
This masquerade ended when apps seeded with BadNews got a prompt from one of three command and control servers, then it started pushing out and installing a more malicious programme called AlphaSMS. This steals credit by sending text messages to premium rate numbers.
John Trostel uses his smart phone on Cingular's data network to monitor and control the servers he manages at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta.
The company also appears to have migrated control of its DNS servers to its publicly-traded competitor, Verisign.
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The malware intercepts websites visited by the web browser, redirecting the users from the site they had chosen to visit to servers under the control of the cybercriminals.
In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.
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Blizzard tried to control the plague by staging rolling re-starts of all the servers supporting the Warcraft realms and applying quick fixes.
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The same automation and control that gives organizations the ability to scale up or down using multiple servers when demand increases also allows them to migrate entire server deployments to a new infrastructure when disaster strikes.
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And Oracle's systems have been consolidated, with 100 or so powerful central computers handling the work of thousands of servers dotted around the world, with resulting gains in business intelligence and control.
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