Malware Must Die Team found source codes of Botnets was being shared in Germany Torrent website.
The team successfully grabbed all of the data from the torrent. Shortly after they downloaded the files, the account that uploaded the files was closed and the file shared was deleted.
According to the team, the malware source codes are old one , mostly from three to four years ago. "most of them are bots/botnet clients source codes of various malicious implementation and some of them are still considered a 'useable' stuff." The blog post reads.
The screenshot provided by the team apparently shows they have the source codes of Zeus, Ransomware, IRC Worm, Sql Brutter Client and UNIX Bot (Client).
Today, one more member from the team found similar source code is being shared openly via HTTP in a website hosted in Sweden .
The malware must die team is ready to share the source codes only with Av industries, authorities and trusted security researchers.