According to statistics gathered by Trusteer, a provider of secure browsing solutions, the highest number of ZeuS command and control (C&C) servers are hosted in the United States.The United States is usually at the top of malware charts, either as top hoster, the country with largest number of infected computers or ... |
4 February 2011
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According to a report from security vendor Damballa, over half of the world's botnet command and control (CnC) servers are hosted by Internet service providers in US, Germany and France.Botnets are the biggest Internet threat at the moment and they can be very powerful and flexible in the illegal activities they... |
27 October 2010
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A reputed security researcher has identified a gaping security hole in the ZeuS command and control Web application, which allows Zbot-based botnets to be easily hijacked.The flaw was discovered by Google security engineer Billy Rios (BK) in a version of ZeuS released earlier this year. But, given the nature of the b... |
27 September 2010
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have located a server hosting the command and control infrastructure for three different banking botnets that target German users.The discovery was made while investigating a SpyEye-based operation. SpyEye is a relatively new crimeware toolkit, which positions itself as a competi... |
16 September 2010
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Security researchers have discovered a botnet that queried a rogue application hosted on Google's App Engine platform for commands. Its command and control server instructed infected computers to download and install a backdoor component.The unusual piece of malware was discovered by researchers from network sec... |
10 November 2009
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Security researchers have discovered that the authors of a botnet send commands to the infected computers under their control through JPEG files. This new technique has the purpose of hiding the malicious traffic from network scanners.The method was discovered by Jason Milletary, a security researcher with Atlanta-ba... |
1 October 2009
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Security researchers from network protection vendor Fortinet warn that a new version of Pushbot is using a social networking lure to spread via instant messaging protocols. The worm gives its authors the ability to control the infected computers via IRC.According to Derek Manky, a security researcher at Fortinet who ... |
14 September 2009
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Malware researchers have discovered a computer trojan, which uses a private Google Groups newsgroup to receive updates and instructions from its authors. This threat suggests that cybercrooks are taking legit Web 2.0 services into consideration for C&C implementation.Last month, security researchers from Arbor Networ... |
14 September 2009
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The creators of the Koobface social networking worm have made a significant change in its botnet infrastructure, in order to make it more resilient to takedown attempts. Meanwhile, the worm, which started plaguing Twitter a few weeks ago, proves very successful in infecting users of the micro blogging platform. Koob... |
24 July 2009
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The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. Meanwhile, the majority of experts agree that no evidence exists so far to incriminate North Korea. ... |
14 July 2009
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