Blog Security Research Accidentally Crashing a Botnet Larry Cashdollar has been working in the security field as a vulnerability researcher for more than 20 years and is currently a Principal Security Researcher on the Security Intelligence Response Team at Akamai. He studied computer science at the University of Southern Maine. Larry has documented more than 300 CVEs and has presented his research at BotConf, BSidesBoston, OWASP Rhode Island, and DEF CON. He enjoys the outdoors and rebuilding small engines in his spare time. Executive summary \n \n \n Akamai researchers have continued their research on KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet, and witnessed the authors accidentally crash it. \n \n In our controlled environment, we were able to send commands to the bot to test its functionality and attack signatures. \n \n As part of this analysis, a syntax error caused the bot to stop sending commands, effectively killing the botnet.…