The Weather Report 2009 explains how botnets are identified and tracked and examines their technical architecture
Source: Dark Reading
The Weather Report reveals how cyber criminals have created new capabilities to support increasingly sophisticated, organized attacks such as Data and Identity Theft (torpig), Government Cyber Espionage (Ghostnet), and even RansomWare (Hexzone). Still, the largest and most damaging botnets continue to be dedicated to DDoS attacks. Prolexic’s report notes that state sponsored, advanced offensive, cyber warfare capabilities are led by the USA, Israel and China, with the UK unofficially admitting to having an offensive capability.