Mozi botnet murder mystery: China or criminal operators behind the kill switch?

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But then this August, the criminal network's activity took"a sudden and unanticipated nosedive," according to ESET Research, which on Wednesday said its teamThey spotted the slowdown first in India on August 8, and then in China on August 16. A little over a month later, ESET found the the control payload inside a user datagram protocol message that acted as the kill switch and had some interesting extra functionality.

"The person behind the takedown sent the control payload eight times, each time instructing the bot to download and install an update of itself via HTTP," ESET malware researchers Ivan Bešina, Michal Škuta, and Miloš Čermák wrote. "There are two potential instigators for this takedown: the original Mozi botnet creator or Chinese law enforcement, perhaps enlisting or forcing the cooperation of the original actor or actors," Bešina said in a

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