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SecureWorks unmasks the Coreflood Trojan
On Monday, SecureWorks released its analysis of the Coreflood Trojan, providing an inside look at a stealthy online predator.
According to a blog by Joe Stewart, director of malware research for SecureWorks, Coreflood started out as an IRC (Internet relay chat) botnet back in 2002. Coreflood--or AFcore, as the author refers to it within the code--is apparently viewed by its author as corporate software that can be tweaked as business needs change. For example, over the last six years, Coreflood has evolved from initiating distributed denial-of-service attacks to collecting IDs and passwords for bank fraud.
