Participating company report
Secureworks analysis of the Gameover Zeus peer-to-peer network and its disruption
Secureworks, July 1, 2014. Technical mechanics of the sinkhole and the subsequent variant resurgence.
- Source type
- Participating company report
- Published
- July 1, 2014
- Research grade
- T1
- Used in entries
- 4
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- Secureworks
- Published
- July 1, 2014
- Source type
- Participating company report
- Research grade
- Source grade T1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- Address
- No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.
- What it supports
- Technical mechanics of the sinkhole and the subsequent variant resurgence
- Dataset id
- src_secureworks_gameover_2014
Research notes
- URL not re-verified in this pass.
How this source is used
Cited 4 times across 4 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 20, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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Operation TovarSupporting source
Malware and botnets, May 2014
Organization roles
1 citation
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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SecureworksTechnical evidence
Technical partner, Operation Tovar
Infrastructure
1 citation
Cited for infrastructure recorded as acted on.
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Command and control serverTechnical evidence
Command and control server taken over, Operation Tovar
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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Gameover Zeus DGA variantTechnical evidence
Same service on replacement infrastructure, Operation Tovar