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Chris Clements Discusses Google TAG Disruption of Blockchain-Enabled Botnet

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture at Cerberus Sentinel (now CISO Global), comments on Google TAG disruption, but not prevention of blockchain-enabled botnet.

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By Mihir Bagwe

December 8, 2021

“Google’s actions in coordination with other hosting providers have no doubt caused noticeable disruption for Glupteba’s current campaigns…

…the perpetrators launching new attack infrastructure by shifting to other less vigilant hosting providers, especially as they have encoded backup C2 server locations onto the Bitcoin blockchain. This provides the group with some infrastructure resiliency as it makes locating all current C2 instances much less predictable.”

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