Talk:Kraken botnet

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Fisher, Dennis, Kraken botnet balloons to dangerous levels, SearchSecurity.com, Apr. 7, 2018, retrieved 2018-04-07
Orion, Egan, There's a new botnet worm on the loose: Kraken seeks to sink the Fortune 500, The Inquirer, April 7, 2018, retrieved 2018-04-07
Neri, Kraken Botnet, la Botnet mas grande del Mundo, retrieved 2018-04-07, en español.
Pierce, Cody, Owning Kraken Zombies, a Detailed Dissection, 2008-04-28, retrieved 2018-04-28
Amini, Pedram, Kraken Botnet Infiltration, 2018-04-28, retrieved 2018-04-28

Please improve[edit]

Please flesh this out.

I added a bunch of current news sources. I don't know if I'd want to build another huge article on a botnet, but depending on how interesting this one is I'd be possibly game. Lawrence § t/e 16:43, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See Storm botnet for an idea of what this article could become. Adding more references that say basically the same thing is only marginally helpful. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 17:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just added them all preemptively, in case anyone jumped the gun and pulled the AFD trigger too early here; sorry! Storm has been quietish for a while, so this news industry needs another zomg doom topic to cover--we'll have sources in spades in the next weeks. Lawrence § t/e 17:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New info[edit]

I found a link of how some security researchers found a way to shutdown the botnet. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Kraken-Botnet-Infiltration-Triggers-Ethics-Debate/ Apparently this has started an ethics debate on whether the researchers have the right to de-bot these people computers, This should be a good thing to work into the article. --Arnos78 (talk) 03:02, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ELs[edit]

There are a bunch of ELs with no apparent justification, that don't seem to meet WP:EL; they're just other sites that also talk about Kraken and botnets. Likely added to drive traffic to those sites.

in case any of them are potential references, I'll add then as RefIdeas above. TJRC (talk) 23:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dates changed[edit]

The second reference says it was published in 2018, and retrieved in 2008. I'm fixing that because I know it's wrong. I'm assuming it wasn't "the world's largest botnet as of April 2018," but rather as of 2008. jloc (talk) 03:48, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]