A few days ago, security researchers from McAfee came across the source code of a botnet on Pastebin, the popular paste site. After analyzing the code, experts have found a couple of interesting features that are worth mentioning.
While the installation process and the way it communicates with its command and contr... |
8 May 2012
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The news that Jenna-Louise Coleman is about to become part of BBC’s "Doctor Who" series became a popular topic on social media sites. Cybercriminals took advantage of the trending topic and started flooding Twitter with malicious posts.
Sophos experts determined that users who clicked on the links from the sha... |
22 March 2012
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Tibet and its freedom are a highly popular topic these days on social media networks and apparently someone is trying to sabotage these conversations on Twitter by using bots that post meaningless tweets to disturb those interested in the subject. We’ve seen a similar situation some time ago when anti-Kremlin ... |
20 March 2012
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While people in Russia are protesting against the recent election results in the Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, those who favor the current government launched a bot attack on Twitter, posting national slogans with the #триумфальная (Triumfalnaya) hashtag until they managed to block the original message feed that had... |
7 December 2011
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Bing has brought hope to Microsoft's search division and, while the initial traffic numbers don't show much growth and are sometimes conflicting, overall the signs are positive and the product is seen as a success. But with all the focus on the user interface it's easy to forget that a search engine is... |
20 July 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Microsoft will discontinue a tool designed to permit developers to build bots for Windows Live Messenger. Come mid-2009, the Redmond company will completely retire the Windows Live Agents software development kit. The announcement was delivered concomitantly with the availability of the latest version of the SDK, nam... |
28 November 2008
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A United States court has decided that Blizzard is right in bringing a law suit against MDY Industries, a company which created the World of Warcraft bot Glider. The court ruled that the company should pay 6 million dollars in damages.The Glider bot gained a lot of popularity in gaming circles, especially in groups o... |
3 October 2008
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A group of researchers from the Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, the Institute of Computer Science Greece, has demonstrated the threats that can be employed via Facebook applications. The scientists created a simple application, called “Picture of the Day,” which promised to display one impres... |
5 September 2008
08:20 GMT |
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The MTBot prototype is by all means not a new project from Microsoft. In fact, the project for the Windows Live Messenger machine translation bot debuted quietly in the summer of 2007. To this date the initiative remains nothing more than a prototype and, despite this, it is available to all Windows Live Messenger us... |
18 February 2008
08:39 GMT |
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This article is about the method cyber-criminals use to get a lot of money via online poker. It is nowhere near legal, and I'm only going to describe this vaguely so that you get the basic idea and learn how to watch out. Here's how they do it:First they go and infect some people with malware, but not just ... |
4 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Gaith Taha from the security company McAfee revealed another technique used nowadays to steal credit card information from the naive users. First of all, you should know that it concerns Facebook, one of the most popular social websites in our days. Using this webpage, a user called Natalie sent private messages on F... |
26 July 2007
06:29 GMT |
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