For example, some of the websites use the same words, phrases and layout. The question is, though, how can we find them so we can shut them down?ĭigging a bit deeper in some of the channels, and looking the websites people were talking about in these channels, I started to see patterns. This isn’t news – channels and IRC servers like this have been a hot media topic for the last five years. After lurking in these channels I noticed that most of them were all about controlling botnets, automated exploitation and credit card fraud. During my recent research into PHP backdoors, bots and shells, I came across a few IRC servers which looked pretty suspicious.
