Google Dorks: fighting fire with fire
During my recent research into PHP backdoors, bots and shells, I came across a few IRC servers which looked pretty suspicious. After lurking in these channels I noticed that most of them were all about controlling botnets, automated exploitation and credit card fraud. This isn’t news – channels and IRC servers like this have been a hot media topic for the last five years. The question is, though, how can we find them so we can shut them down?
Digging a bit deeper in some of the channels, and looking the websites people were talking about in these channels, I started to see patterns. For example, some of the websites use the same words, phrases and layout. By combining these terms and creating a simple rotation algorithm I could use search engines to find websites offering illegal stuff such as credit card data and skimming tools.
Tags: anti-virus, Google, Industry News, Industry News, Information Technology, Internet Security, Kaspersky, Search Engine, security, Software, virus
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