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Security researcher and blogger Brian Krebs has been closely monitoring the Citadel Trojan’s development process and his latest findings reveal that a tight community was formed between the authors and the customers, making the project evolve rapidly.
In practice, the results were observed by Seculert research... |
10 February 2012
03:03 GMT |
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After Kaspersky revealed that the Kelihos botnet they terminated back in September in a partnership with Microsoft and Kyrus Tech Inc. may have returned, the Redmond company comes forward with some clarifications, arguing that this is actually a new version of the Kelihos malware that’s being used to create a n... |
4 February 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Right after Microsoft and Kaspersky disrupted the activity of the Kelihos/Hlux botnet, a week ago the Redmond company having managed to identify one of its masterminds, researchers found that the botnet returned with some interesting new techniques.
Kaspersky Lab Experts reveal that the method they utilized to bring... |
31 January 2012
09:14 GMT |
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The KOOBFACE botnet, that’s known for using pay-per install and pay-per click mechanisms to help the masterminds that run it earn millions, has recently been upgraded with a sophisticated traffic direction system (TDS) that handles all of their traffic referenced to affiliate websites.
According to Trend Micro... |
20 December 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Researchers from ESET, the renowned security solutions provider, discovered that a couple of Russian forums, on which political topics are debated, are under heavy attack, one of them barely managing to stay afloat.
Thousands of citizens are protesting these days on the streets of Russia’s cities as a result ... |
13 December 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Security experts noticed that the botnet known as Pushdo or Cutwail, that’s been making rounds since 2007, is now launching a spam campaign in search of new devices it can infect.
Airline ticket orders, ACH alerts, Facebook notifications or even emails that claim to represent scanned documents can actually hid... |
2 December 2011
07:49 GMT |
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Microsoft will be dismissing the lawsuit against Dominique Alexander Piatti and dotFREE Group SRO, the named defendants in the case of the Kelihos botnet takedown, after a settlement was reached.
Richard Domingues Boscovich, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, stressed that the software giant will conti... |
27 October 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Microsoft took down the Waledac botnet in early 2010, but by the end of that same year, Waledac 2.0, which the company dubbed Kelihos, had started to show signs of life again, and as of January 2011 was spamming again in full force.
It’s critical to note that Waledac 2.0 didn’t manage to grow to the ... |
28 September 2011
07:14 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec have uncovered a click fraud scam instrumented with the help of a sophisticated file infector.It was actually the infector, called W32.Xpaj.B, that attracted the attention of malware analysts with its complex detection-evading techniques.W32.Xpaj.B infects executable files on comput... |
29 August 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a recently discovered botnet designed to mine Bitcoins has been updated with components that facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.The so-called Miner Botnet uses a peer-to-peer infrastructure and can also serve as a malware distribution platform.However, considering t... |
26 August 2011
02:16 GMT |
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Security researchers from F-Secure have come across a Bitcoin mining type of bot that is designed to be controlled by its creators from Twitter.Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer virtual currency that can be exchanged directly by users without the need for intermediary banks or payment systems.Bitcoin received a fair share of... |
3 August 2011
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Microsoft is offering a substantial cash incentive, $250,000, for any information that will lead to the identification, arrest and criminal conviction of the cybercriminals behind the Rustock malware and botnet. In March 2011, the Redmond company, in collaboration with third-party security experts and law enforcemen... |
19 July 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Security experts are working on shutting down a new botnet based on a modified Palevo version whose creators were arrested last week in Europe.According to a security firm called Unveillance which is involved in the effort, the new botnet affects computers in over 172 countries, including the United States, Russia, B... |
5 July 2011
11:52 GMT |
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The TDL4 malware which features a highly sophisticated MBR rootkit has been characterized in the news lately as indestructible, but the truth is there are freely available tools that can remove it.The comments of a Kaspersky Lab security expert who said that the TDL4 authors are trying to create an indestructible bot... |
5 July 2011
07:53 GMT |
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After Bitcoin-stealing malware, security researchers have identified a trojan that piggybacks on infected systems to mine the virtual currency.Bitcoin is a new peer-to-peer cash-like virtual currency that can be exchanged directly by users without the need of a central bank or payment processing service.Because of th... |
29 June 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Microsoft upped the ante in the war against the Rustock botnet, going after the cybercriminals that operated the zombie network of computers, which it believes to have either operated or still be operating out of Russia. Having shut down the Rustock botnet in March 2011 through a collaborative effort involving the M... |
8 June 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Computers infected with a piece of malware that hijacks Facebook accounts are used in a new and aggressive spam campaign on the social networking website.According to security researchers from F-Secure, the spam messages posted from compromised accounts promote a video sharing website and read:"Free Tube Hub - Your D... |
7 June 2011
14:23 GMT |
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A large botnet acting as distribution platform for Rustock and other malware seems to have been abandoned by its creators in an attempt to erase their tracks.Dubbed Harnig, the botnet has been part of Rustock's propagation scheme for around two years. This means the bot client might exist on many of the one mill... |
23 March 2011
08:51 GMT |
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When Microsoft took down Waledac in 2010, the company was just warming up for upcoming fights with the heavyweights of the botnet universe.But it appears that shutting down Waledac was nothing but good practice for the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) which announced that it prescribed a lethal dosage of “o... |
18 March 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Almost thirty governmental and private South Korean websites were hit this weekend in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched with the help of a small botnet.The Presidential, Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry websites were targeted, along with those of many financial institutions, but the impact wa... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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A security researcher has identified a new pharma spam botnet which uses fast-flux technologies in order to increase its resiliency to takedown attempts.Dubbed "Wibimo," the botnet was discovered by Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Dell's SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit, who presented it at the recen... |
21 February 2011
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified a piece of malware designed to brute force the password of VoIP accounts in a distributed manner.The trojan, which Symantec describes as a SIP cracker, after the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used by VoIP systems, is being installed on computers by Sality.Sality ... |
18 February 2011
03:40 GMT |
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Security researchers warn the cross-platform Boonana trojan has several vulnerabilities which allows anyone to discover and abuse computers infected with it.The trojan first appeared in October last year and comes in the form of a rogue Java applet that contains instructions to infect both Windows and Mac OS X system... |
17 January 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Security vendors warn that Rustock, the largest spam botnet in the world, which has been inactive since Christmas, suddenly started spamming again in full force.Rustock is a botnet that dates back several years. It had its ups and downs along the way, but it reached its peak last year after dropping TLS encryption an... |
10 January 2011
11:58 GMT |
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While analyzing a recent spam campaign, security researchers found what seems to be a new version of the Storm or Waledac botnets.Storm was one of the first and most successful botnets of all times. At its peak, in 2007, it was composed of millions of infected computers and could take entire countries off the Interne... |
3 January 2011
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Researchers from mobile security provider Lookout have identified a new Android trojan capable of connecting to a remote server and receiving instructions.Dubbed Geinimi, the trojan was discovered in China and is currently being distributed from local Android app markets. This means it can only infect devices with th... |
30 December 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Three men who instrumented a scheme that relied on bypassing system restrictions to automatically buy tickets in bulk from legit distributors, pleaded guilty to fraud and hacking charges.The scheme ran under the cover of several companies, but its primary front was a firm called Wiseguys Tickets, through which the fr... |
20 November 2010
05:25 GMT |
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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
10:55 GMT |
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Security researchers were able to tie a group of hacktivists known as the Iranian Cyber Army to a series of Web exploit attacks affecting popular websites.The Iranian Cyber Army rose to fame last year when it managed to hijack several high profile websites, including Twitter and Baidu, whose home pages it replaced wi... |
26 October 2010
03:39 GMT |
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One in every three PCs infected with malware is a zombie computer, namely a machine that is part of a botnet and controlled by a remote attacker with as much if not even more privileges than the user sitting in front of the screen. Data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) volume 9 delivers insight ... |
22 October 2010
06:21 GMT |
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An Arozina computer specialist pleaded guilty to offenses related to his role in a pump-and-dump scheme instrumented with the help of hacking and botnets.James Bragg, 41, of Chandler, Arizona, admitted his involvement in the stock-fraud operation, which lasted from Novermber 2007 to February 2009.According to court r... |
21 October 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that one of the world's largest phishing gangs, known in the security industry as Avalanche, is now relying on the infamous ZeuS trojan to steal sensitive data from users.The announcement came from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), an international association of security vendors,... |
21 October 2010
04:26 GMT |
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Microsoft cleaned in excess of 6.5 million zombie computers between April and June 2010, but the company’s efforts alone are not enough to put a stop to the increasing threat that botnets represent to users, businesses and critical infrastructure. At the RSA Conference Europe 2010 in London, Adrienne Hall, Gen... |
13 October 2010
07:45 GMT |
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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
14:58 GMT |
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There is now a precedent that could allow Microsoft, and others, especially companies in the security industry, to take down botnet after botnet, dealing a deadly blow to one of the core resources that attackers are using, zombie computers. Microsoft killed off the Waledac botnet, believed to be formed by in excess o... |
9 September 2010
10:18 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have recently analyzed the click fraud cybercriminal model and concluded that a medium-sized botnet can earn fraudsters several millions of dollars per year. The experts warn that such threats are evolving and are becoming harder to detect.For their study the Trend Micro research... |
10 August 2010
03:19 GMT |
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Researchers from Atlanta-based security company SecureWorks have uncovered a major check counterfeiting operation, which resulted in a $9 million fraud. The fraudsters used a botnet designed to automate a wide variety of tasks, from money mule recruitment to scraping processed checks repositories.The gang, which rese... |
29 July 2010
16:29 GMT |
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The perpetrators of a ticket fraud operation that made use of a botnet to subvert protection mechanisms enforced by ticket vendors were indicted earlier this week. The dedicated network of computers spread across the U.S. ran software that impersonated legit buyers and solved CAPTCHA tests.It's a well known fact... |
6 March 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken down one of the 10 largest botnets in the United States and a major source of spam globally. Tim Cranton, Microsoft associate general counsel, made public the results of the initiative referred to internally as Operation b49 on February 24th, after the company made sure that the actions it has tak... |
25 February 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Ranked as the top botnet threat by InfoWorld this summer, the atrocious Zeus botnet was discovered to have infiltrated Amazons EC2's cloud computing service. This comes as the first successful (if we can say that) botnet infiltration in one of Amazon's cloud-based services, renowned for their safety and per... |
10 December 2009
11:09 GMT |
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Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered at least 1,300 public Google Reader pages infected with a new Koobface type of attack. Hackers have employed Google Reader accounts to host links redirecting users to a Koobface infected page.Attackers employed Google Reader's possibility to share links and messages... |
10 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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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
05:48 GMT |
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Independent security researcher Denis Sinegubko has recently stumbled upon a new version of the Gumblar Web botnet that has quite a craving for PHP CMS-driven websites. Mr. Sinegubko has discovered that this latest version (“untested version” as he refers to it) has until now affected more than 300,000 PH... |
5 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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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
06:30 GMT |
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Yahoo masterminds have concocted a great idea to stop spam and help charity organizations around the Globe. The Internet giant is pondering introducing a digital version of the classical mail stamp for its emailing system. The virtual stamp will cost approximately one cent and will be sold in packs of 500 for 5$. Af... |
18 August 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Dr. Jose Nazario, manager of security research at Arbor Networks, has recently discovered that the Twitter channel “upd4t3” has been relaying base64 command messages to a bot network through its tweets. Unnoticed by Twitter, the channel has been broadcasting messages containing encrypted information to a ... |
14 August 2009
10:11 GMT |
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ScanSafe, a renowned SaaS Security provider, has issued its second Quarter Global Threat Report. The results present a dark image of the Internet, with various fields were virus attacks and web malware numbers have risen considerably from Q1 results. From all the malware, the feared Gumblar botnet is dominating the o... |
14 August 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Malicious code piggyback riding the latest major Build of Windows 7 is estimated to have infected approximately 30,000 users. The malware was bundled into the code of the operating system, a scenario on which Microsoft had provided warnings to users in the past. Leaked builds of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) Build... |
13 May 2009
02:33 GMT |
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The world's first Mac OS X botnet has reportedly been discovered. Symantec researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli said the malware was actually discovered back in January, and came courtesy of two trojans, previously reported of here on Softpedia. According to Symantec's researchers, a Mac OS... |
17 April 2009
06:31 GMT |
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With the February release of security patches Microsoft is attempting to kill what it is referring to as one of the largest botnets currently active worldwide, zombie machines infected with Win32/Srizbi. According to Vincent Tiu, SDE II at Microsoft, the Srizbi family of malicious code contains not only trojan droppe... |
12 February 2009
09:55 GMT |
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