Botnets duck detection via P2P services, security firm says

Several of the Internet’s most dangerous malware threats are now routinely using peer-to-peer (P2P) command and control in an effort to evade the detection and shutdown that has affected many conventional botnets, security firm Damballa said.

The P2P tactic has been around for several years but the company had noticed a fivefold increase in the number of malware samples using this behavior in the last year, specifically among dangerous threats such as ZeroAccess, Zeus v3, and the rapacious TDL4/TDSS rootkit.