Belgian police has this year 30 botnet servers shut down

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The Belgian police seems to have success with a project in which she tries to botnet servers to find and exit. Last year, the unit in Belgium lwa thirty servers for this reason closed and now all the counter for this year to thirty.

The unit focuses on the command-&-control servers that administrators use to botnet clients to instruct, for example, ddos attacks. “At the end of 2009 we started a project to botnet servers to locate and exit. Last year, we have 30 servers shut down, now the counter is at 60. We find so frequently compromised servers in Belgium,” said Luc Beirens, head of the Federal Computer Crime Unit of the federal police, the Belgian newspaper De tijd. The biggest part of the in 2010 found servers was, incidentally, the management systems of the Koobface network.

The Federal Computer Crime Unit of the Belgian police used his self-designed Virologic System for the detection and analysis of malware on infected botnetclients. In 2010 analyzed this system 5115 various forms of malware. The outcome is shared with other police forces in Europe. This will be done by using the Cyborg project of Europol, which serves as the exchange service for information about botnetdossiers.

The actual detection is not done by the crime unit, but by external parties. Information about the sites, obtain the unit largely through beveiligingsinstituut Cert.be.