News & Insights

One of our core missions is to provide actionable data to network owners and researchers. Given this mission, we are constantly on the lookout for new and interesting ways to deliver our data and we are now pleased to announce that we have published a Maltego transform compatible with the Malformity Project.

As individuals and as a group we have been collecting malware for many years. The Shadowserver Foundation repository dates back to 2005 and we collected our first million shortly after we actually started counting.

You track botnets? Right, we do as well. You spent your weekends building your slick botnet trackers and some fancy web interface? Damn, we did too. But let's face the truth, DDoS is boring. What gives better sense to your day than some random crook trolling you and your monitoring infrastructure? Nothing. So here's what happened today...

In the last couple of weeks we have dropped almost 2500 C&C's from our tracking system. This may seem extreme but is was something of a necessity. It should also bring up the question of validity of the rest of our C&C counts that you see.