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US Authorities Disable Major Botnet The FBI and US federal prosecutors have disabled a botnet of over 2 million infected computers and took the unprecedented step of setting up sinkhole servers to keep it under control.The FBI has seized five command and control (C&C) servers, as well as 29 domain names used by the Coreflood botnet to communicate with ...	14 April 2011 05:37 GMT

Newly Discovered Flaw Exposes ZeuS C&C Servers to Hijacking 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 10:02 GMT

Researchers Peak Inside the Torpig Trojan Infrastructure Researchers from the Computer Security Group of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) have taken over the Torpig botnet for ten days. Their subsequent report (PDF) reveals that, during this period, the Trojan stole 8,310 accounts from 410 different financial institutions, as well as the details of 1,66...	5 May 2009 04:59 GMT

Cyber-Criminals Target Their Own Kind Cyber-crooks are not only exploiting security flaws in popular software in order to steal from vulnerable and innocent users. Independent Security Consultant Dancho Danchev describes how vulnerabilities in unpatched releases of the Zeus crimeware kit are being exploited by hackers in order to steal resources from the...	2 March 2009 04:33 GMT

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