Peter Greko and Fabian Rothschild, both members of the HackMiami hackerspace, here today showed how they studied samples of the Zeus and SpyEye Trojans, as well as just how the cybercrime underground uses this code for botnets. They then used that intelligence to write code for Web servers that mitigates these botnets. Their premise is that most client machines are infected, anyway. "What we've done is make it really hard for botmasters to use any information they collect from client machines," Rothschild said.
Their hope is to convert these methods into software modules for the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI), an open-source Web app security control library aimed at making secure code simpler to write. "We want to talk to the ESAPI project and see if we can come up with modules for them," Greko said.
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