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 Botnet

News briefs: The latest news from Apple, Verizon and more

May 01, 2012

News briefs: The latest news from Apple, Verizon, CrowdStrike, FTC and more
 

Debate: Identifying culprits behind Koobface disrupts the gang's activity

Daniel Wood, Phase One Consulting Group | Roel Schouwenberg, Kaspersky Lab May 01, 2012

Debate: Identifying the culprits behind Koobface will diminish the gang's activity.
 

Thanks to weak passwords, Conficker worm still rampant

April 25, 2012

Detection numbers continue to rise for the infamous Conficker worm within enterprises, even though there is a patch available and no new variants have appeared in two years.
 

WordPress sites served as launching pad for Flashback

April 19, 2012

Researchers have discovered a correlation between infected WordPress sites and the propagation of the prolific Mac Flashback trojan.
 

Flashback botnet activity cools over the weekend

April 10, 2012

Security researchers said the number of Flashback-infected Mac computers significantly fell over the weekend, but that doesn't mean the botnet has been crippled.
 

Apple releases another update to quell Flashback spread

April 06, 2012

Security experts are backing up one anti-virus vendor's estimate of the massive size of a Mac trojan botnet.
 

Kelihos lives on thanks to Facebook trojan

March 29, 2012

After being "sinkholed," the Kelihos.B botnet has been reconfigured and is spreading through social networking sites.
 

New anti-bot code of conduct approved by FCC

March 28, 2012

The Anti-Bot Code of Conduct has been approved by the FCC, giving ISPs a blueprint on managing botnet threats.
 

New version of Kelihos botnet, with 110K nodes, cut down

March 28, 2012

A collaborative effort of security organizations announced Wednesday that they knocked offline an embodiment of the Kelihos botnet, which was believed dead, but since emerged with new capabilities.
 

New botnet working group forms out of government efforts

March 12, 2012

A new industry working group, the Industry Botnet Group, is aimed at developing a model that focuses on creating awareness, prevention and privacy concerning infected machines.
 

Feedback due on gov't proposal around botnet notification

November 01, 2011

Friday is the deadline for public comments regarding a government proposal to create a model by which internet service providers voluntarily alert consumers if their computers are part of a botnet.
 

Microsoft disrupts Kelihos botnet, names alleged mastermind

September 27, 2011

The Kelihos botnet, made up of approximately 41,000 infected computers worldwide, was capable of sending 3.8 billion spam emails per day.
 

Microsoft wins Rustock civil case, passes evidence to FBI

September 23, 2011

Microsoft has prevailed in its civil case against the operators of the Rustock botnet, which in its heyday controlled a network of more than a million computers.
 

Hacker "soldier" steals $3.2 million from U.S. companies

September 15, 2011

Researchers at Trend Micro say they have been hot on the tracks of a corporate hacker, and now they are turning over their findings to U.S. law enforcement.
 

McAfee fires back at Shady RAT criticism

August 22, 2011

McAfee has fired back at critics of its report on Operation Shady RAT, and said the CEO of rival anti-virus maker Kaspersky Lab, who called the report "alarmist," missed the whole point of the expose.
 

New "indestructible" botnet comprised of 4.5 million PCs

July 01, 2011

A new botnet made up of more than 4.5 million infected computers is "practically indestructible," according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab. But some disagree.
 

DoJ, FBI disable massive Coreflood botnet

April 13, 2011

Federal authorities have taken over the control hub of the prolific Coreflood botnet and filed a civil complaint against 13 unnamed defendants.
 

Canadian researchers simulate botnet

January 31, 2011

Scientists in Canada have replicated a botnet to study its behaviour, infecting 3,000 virtual machines with the Waledec malware.
 

Spam, after a holiday hiatus, returns in earnest

January 10, 2011

The Rustock botnet, dubbed the biggest source of global spam, has resumed activity after a two-week break, according to security researchers at Symantec.
 

DDoS attacks commonly leaned on to mute rights groups

December 27, 2010

Advocacy groups and independent media face a variety of damaging cyberattacks, and there is little they can do to stop them, a new study from Harvard University concludes.
 

Accused Mega-D botnet operator arrested

December 03, 2010

A Russian man who is believed to be the operator of the Mega-D botnet, one of the largest spam senders in the world, has been arrested and is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in federal court.
 

O'Reilly, Coulter DDoSer sentenced to 30 months

November 09, 2010

A former University of Akron student was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison for using the school's computer network to control a botnet and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against conservative websites belonging to Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudy Giuliani. Mitchell Frost, 23, of Bellevue, Ohio admitted to, in 2006 and 2007, scanning the internet to find vulnerable computer networks to access and gain control over and then using the botnet to initiate DDoS attacks that temporarily interrupted the operation of www.billoreilly.com, www.anncoulter.com and www.joinrudy2008.com. He also must serve three years of supervised release. - DK
 

Iranian Cyber Army shifts efforts toward malware, botnets

October 25, 2010

A hacker group responsible for defacement attacks against Twitter and Baidu now appears to be amassing a mighty botnet, according to researchers at a security firm.
 

Zeus behind scenes of new phish

October 15, 2010

A growing spam attack warning recipients of a problem with their tax payments has been circulating. But it is more than a phishing ploy to attain recipients' confidential information, according to Solera Networks. Researchers at the network forensics company have evidence that this campaign is actually infecting machines using a new exploit to join a pre-existing Zeus botnet. — GM
 

Microsoft exec proposes new internet "health" model

October 06, 2010

Governments, the IT industry and internet access providers should evaluate and ensure the health of consumer devices before allowing them full access to the internet, according to a Microsoft executive.
 

New commercial DDoS botnet discovered

September 14, 2010

Researchers have discovered a fast-growing botnet that was designed as part of a commercial service for launching DDoS attacks.
 

Email worm traced back to cyber-jihad group

September 13, 2010

The person responsible for the "Here you have" email worm, which wreaked havoc last week on businesses across the United States, may be part of a cyber-jihad group wanting to hack into U.S. Army IT systems.
 

Microsoft to assume control over Waledac domains

September 08, 2010

Security industry efforts to permanently shut down the prolific Waledac botnet have been successful, according to Microsoft.
 

Saskatchewan teenager nabbed for botnet

September 07, 2010

A 19-year-old Saskatchewan resident was charged with launching a cyberattack on a business based in New York City.
 
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