A new piece of malware called Downloader.Sninfs, which uses Twitter and various pastebin services to issue updates to its botnet, has been recently discovered. Security experts now warn that Google's search engine could be abused in a similar manner to make a botnet more resilient to takedown efforts.Botnets pla... |
24 August 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Yury Namestnikov, antivirus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, explains why botnets are so common and how they are used to generate illegal income. Their fairly low maintenance costs and ease of use, combined with the high profits they can bring, make them the perfect cybercriminal tool. Botnets are armies of computers infec... |
27 July 2009
09:24 GMT |
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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
09:53 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has set out to regulate a DNS technique known as fast flux hosting, which is constantly being abused by cyber-criminals to hinder the efforts of security groups and authorities. After releasing its initial report (PDF), ICANN's Generic Names Support... |
28 January 2009
08:25 GMT |
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