Researchers at the University of Central Florida have warned that bot herders can now avoid honeypots.

"Ethical concerns mean that security firms do not allow their infrastructure to be used in sending spam or running attacks against victims," writes The Register's John Leyden. "By monitoring such instructions it's therefore possible for cybercrooks to program command and control servers to disable or simply ignore these machines, thus depriving security firms of vital intelligence in how zombie botnets are operating in the real world."

"Preliminary findings from the Florida team's research were published in a recent edition of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security, as explained here," Leyden writes.

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