The notorious BlackEnergy (BE) malware is once again a hot topic in the security world. This celebrity status is mainly due to its involvement in the
The notorious BlackEnergy (BE) malware is once again a hot topic in the security world. This celebrity status is mainly due to its involvement in the
11 PagesThe notorious BlackEnergy (BE) malware is once again a hot topic in the security world. This celebrity status is mainly due to its involvement in the recent cyberattack on the Ukraine’s power industry, which left 80,000 customers of the electricity company without power for several hours, two days before Christmas 2015. 12007 2008 Arbor Networks discovered the original BlackEnergy – a relatively simple HTTP DDoS Trojan – in mid-2007. During their initial research, Arbor Networks analyzed twenty-seven botnets infected by BE, with an estimated couple hundred bots in each network. Most of the botnets were in Russia and Malaysia, yet most of the top targets for the DDOS attacks were also in Russia, making the correlation between the attacked networks and the attacked sites uncl
