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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

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Ilomo - Advanced Botnet and Information Stealer

Lightning This dangerous botnet uses advanced techniques to hide, steal ID/password information, and to spread to other PCs.  This was recently highlighted as one of the top 10 threats and it's design is very sophisticated.

All Your Info Are Belong to Us
http://blog.trendmicro.com/all-your-info-are-belong-to-us/

QUOTE: Ilomo has two key components to its business plan. The first is good old fashioned information stealing. Ilomo injects its code into the browser and monitors the internet connection waiting for the user to connect to one of over 4,000 banking, financial or webmail sites. Ilomo ‘s second source of revenue is selling “anonymity as a service.” Every infected Ilomo machine acts as a proxy so that criminals can route their illegal activities through different networks and countries.

Ilomo Botnet - Detailed analysis (30 page PDF)
http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/content/us/trendwatch/researchandanalysis/ilomo_external.pdf