Enterprise security in 2008: Malware trends suggest new twists on old tricks

Years ago, attackers would often have one or two really important machines that were the centerpiece of their criminal money-making schemes. The bad guys, thus, often faced one or more single points of failure in their criminal infrastructures. A phisher's imposter Web site could be taken out. A spammer's mail server could be added to a blacklist. And for bot-herders, an IRC server, historically used by many botnets to distribute commands to all of the bot-infected hosts, could be shut down.

So, how have today's enterprising bot-herders, making millions of dollars from their criminal empires, responded to the single points of failure? Two words: fast flux.

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