Researchers at Damballa Solutions have uncovered evidence of a powerful new botnet they’ve nicknamed Kracken. The company estimates that Kraken has infected 400,000 systems, which would make it twice the size of Storm during that botnet’s hayday. One of the problems hampering the investigation at this point is a lack of adequate antivirus detection; the few antivirus programs that currently detect Kraken list it as a generic “suspicious file.” This, combined with… arstechnica.com http://arst

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