Carna Botnet

Recently, I discovered Darknet Diaries, an amazing podcast produced by Jack Rhysider, covering true stories from the dark side of the Internet. Stories about hackers, defenders, threats, malware, botnets, breaches, and privacy.

Episode #13

In 2012 the Carna botnet was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn’t have any intentions on doing anything malicious. It was built just to help us all understand the Internet better. This botnet used the oldest security vulnerability in the book. And the data that came out of it was amazing and looks like this on a map. You might have to click and enlarge image to see the animation.

The Carna botnet was used to scan the internet to create a map of where all the public facing computer are in the world.

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