Windows 7: DIY Twitter-Controlled Botnet Kit Spotted in the Wild

Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET have uncovered a simple tool automating the creation of botnets that can be controlled from Twitter. The botnet clients can be commanded to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks or install additional malware on the compromised computers.

The do-it-yourself botnet kit, which ESET detects as MSIL/Agent.NBW, has been discovered by the company's malware investigation laboratory in Latin America, suggesting that it might have originated in the area. "In the last few hours we have found an application that is currently in-the-wild. This application has been developed to automate the creation of botnets where communication between the botmaster and the zombie systems under his control is performed through Twitter," Jorge Mieres and Sebastián Bortnik, both security analysts at ESET, announced in a blog post [in Spanish].

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