Security researchers at RSA spotlight the cyber-infrastructure that props up malware by providing so-called bulletproof hosting to attackers. Troyak, as it turns out, is just one of five upstream providers surrounding a core of eight bulletproof networks tied to malware such as Zeus.
– Researchers in EMC’s RSA
security division have uncovered an extensive infrastructure propping up the
attackers behind the Zeus Trojan.
The findings reflect part of the reason the disruption
of Troyak-AS March 9 only caused Zeus traffic to slow, as opposed to stopping
it in its tracks. Troyak i…