One of the Internet's most notorious spam botnets, Mega-D, was severely crippled by researchers from a small security company. The blow was delivered late last week and the millions of junk emails spewed out by the botnet every hour instantly stopped.Mega-D, also known as Ozdok, is a botnet primarily used for sp... |
10 November 2009
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Security researchers from FireEye warn of a new dangerous technique employed by the Vundo trojan in order to push worthless system tools. A malicious component encrypts personal documents on the affected systems and the users are forced to pay for software that decrypts them. Vundo, also known as Virtumondo or Virtu... |
21 March 2009
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Following the recent takedown of the notorious McColo ISP, the control servers of several major botnets have been knocked offline, rendering the armies of zombie PCs out of the reach of their owners. Researchers from the FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab have fought and succeeded to keep the largest of these botnets, ... |
1 December 2008
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People are using computers and networks more and more to power up their business, the web is changing, so is the threat landscape, hackers are getting smarter and smarter, but security experts are not slacking either! One of the newest things one IT manager can add to his company's security modules is the botwal... |
25 September 2007
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