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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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As the security researchers speculated back in November, the happy times when fewer junk mails hit our inboxes were not bound to last. Dropping to under 40% of what they were before the takedown of infamous hoster McColo, the spam levels are now at over 60 percent. On November 11, following a collaborative effort fro... |
10 December 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Bob Harrison has been running, for many years now, the bobbear.co.uk website, aimed at informing users about online fraud and identity theft schemes. A few days back, Harrison was unpleasantly surprised to find his website inoperable, due to a massive denial of service attack. Upon further investigations, he discover... |
18 November 2008
05:39 GMT |
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McColo has succeeded to strike a deal with an unsuspecting uplink provider, and got back online for a short period of time. Even if it lasted only a few hours, the uptime allowed botnet herders to push updates and relocate some of their control servers.The sudden takedown of the McColo hosting provider last week took... |
17 November 2008
06:16 GMT |
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The United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that 21-year-old Gregory King from Fairfield, California was sentenced to serve two years in a federal prison for two counts of transmitting code with the purpose of harming protected computers. King pleaded guilty and admitted to have used a botnet of infected m... |
14 October 2008
11:07 GMT |
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The RSA FraudAction Research Labs claims that the Eastern European Rock Phish team is preparing for something big and that it is upgrading its infrastructure to integrate the Asprox botnet. According to their report, this upgrade might be the reason why its phishing activity has decreased for the past ... |
6 September 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Organizations focusing on tracking the evolution of security threats are reporting that, over the last three months, the dimension of botnets has increased about four times. “During the same time period, there isn't an appreciable increase in new malware, new viruses or anything that would obviously indica... |
3 September 2008
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We previously reported on the arrest of a teenage Dutch, who had created the Shadow botnet. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit and the FBI worked together to solve the case of the malicious network, which is reported to be responsible for the infection of over 100,000 machines. The Brazilian conspirator in the Shadow bot... |
22 August 2008
03:19 GMT |
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The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit arrested a 19-year-old man from the Netherlands, as he was trying to sell the Shadow botnet that he had created to a Brazilian. International special forces, including the F.B.I., are collaborating for the extradition of the South American, who was also arrested, to the U.S.The botnet s... |
15 August 2008
05:39 GMT |
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FBI warns users not to open any emails that are headed by the "FBI vs. Facebook" subject. They do not contain any information regarding a lawsuit, an investigation, or other activity that the two parts could be involved in. Clicking on the eye-catching titled emails will result in users being infected with a storm wo... |
4 August 2008
05:56 GMT |
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According to Commtouch, a US based company that specializes in providing e-mail safety solutions, and the quarterly report that it has recently released, malware and spam traffic is still at alarmingly high levels mainly because of the millions and millions of infected machines. The report analyzes the day to day ev... |
10 July 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Colonel Charles Williamson III wrote an interesting piece published in the Armed Forces Journal, admitting to the fact that a potential botnet designed especially to protect the United States of America computers would be extremely useful for the nation, because it would help reject attacks launched from any region o... |
13 May 2008
03:58 GMT |
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As we, here at Softpedia, told you back in April, Srizbi is the world's largest botnet ever. Following its evolution, which is also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, Marshal, one of the global leaders in Email and Internet Content Security, just announced that Srizbi accounts for half of the world's spam. A p... |
12 May 2008
05:32 GMT |
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The Storm botnet has caused serious problems for both security companies and users around the world because it appeared in lots of variants which attempted to trick security software and bypass protection. However, according to a new report published by MessageLabs, the Storm loses more and more ground to other threa... |
7 May 2008
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Security company SecureWorks has published a report revealing the most dangerous botnets spotted on the web and, even some of you may expect to the Storm on the first position, it's only the fifth. Thus, the first place was "won" by Srizbi, also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, which is a rootkit enabled botnet t... |
10 April 2008
02:46 GMT |
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Right, if you're a cybercriminal that wants to make some cash on the side, you're not a stranger to the way 'install' selling works. It's really not that difficult, come to think of it. The big time spyware authors are willing to pay scores of dough for having their malicious code spread to P... |
20 March 2008
14:51 GMT |
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AKILL, the hacker who was arrested a few days ago by the FBI and the Kiwi authorities, has mild autism, an affection that is best described by isolation and advanced capabilities in a certain domain. According to The New Zealand Herald, Owen Walker, the 18-year-old boy arrested by the police, is now living with relat... |
4 December 2007
10:20 GMT |
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The FBI started a powerful anti-botnet campaign and is willing to do anything possible in order to identify the attackers and prosecute them. Codenamed Operating 'Bot Roast', the case has already indicted 8 individuals in the United States, who where identified as potential botmasters. But, what's more... |
30 November 2007
05:14 GMT |
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Operation 'Bot Roast' is a campaign launched by the FBI and it is meant to stop the cyber criminals and, especially, the botnet owners, who attempt to control numerous computers from all over the world and launch web attacks. According to the FBI officials, since June when the campaign has started, no less ... |
30 November 2007
03:46 GMT |
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The botnets evolve every day as more users fail to protect themselves and their computers, helping the attackers expand their malicious attempts. Today, ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, released a report concerning the botnets, revealing that China, US, Germany, Spain and France are the t... |
28 November 2007
04:40 GMT |
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John Kenneth Schiefer, a 26-year-old American security expert from Los Angeles, faces a sentence of 60 years in prison and a fine of $1.75 million after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and others, The Register reported today. The hacker, who used nicknames such as "Acid" and "Acidstorm", managed ... |
12 November 2007
06:34 GMT |
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The distributed denial of service has been revealed to be the second most feared thing for Internet Service providers out there, as a recent study by Arbor Networks shows. Their worst fear is a botnet, since not only can it be used for DDoS but it has other capabilities, too. However, BT, in partnership with Arbor Ne... |
4 October 2007
03:02 GMT |
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Greg King, 21, of Fairfield California, also known as Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK and Gregk707 is a hacker that has been recently netted by the American authorities after an intensive investigation by the FBI.This guy was a botnet herder or bot master, or whatever you wish to call him - he's the type of hacker ... |
3 October 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Botnets are a serious threat to Internet Service Providers and not only to them. As this is the year of the bot in cyber-security, it's a clear thing that all security experts are trying to tackle this problem. And what the botnet creators or herders or whatever you wish to call them fear most is, of course, the... |
28 September 2007
06:27 GMT |
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New Zealand has cyber-security issues, as you might have known, but the fact that they got hackers attacking the US and Asia as well is something new. Their bot masters will try to get their hands on any machine they can get. The worst part about this is that these hackers are not mature thus cannot be prosecuted, ac... |
24 September 2007
06:22 GMT |
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This isn't an article about how you lose in some computer games, or about how the machine may do some stuff better than you can. It's about the fact that no matter what ISPs do, botnets still have one up on them. And you know why? It's because not only is there is no perfect way of battling these cyber... |
20 September 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Every night, before they go to bed, ISPs check their closet for botnets. That's a funny way of putting it, but the issue is serious. Botnets have finally surpassed distributed denial of service attacks as the top threat identified by service providers. And I'm not just saying this, these facts are shown in ... |
18 September 2007
06:12 GMT |
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I cannot believe this! The e-mail borne Storm just started infecting web pages. And what can I say? Its new feature popped up in style after it infected a US Republican Party site. The webpage got hacked and it had been spreading a form of Storm that would attack any vulnerable machines that visit the site. It is not... |
17 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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This virus has changed its face so many times, that I, for one, have lost track of them. It began its spam campaign with a storm in Europe and since then it sent mails regarding many subjects out of which I can mention celebrity videos, Labor Day cards and account authentication related mails. Of course, now it has m... |
10 September 2007
10:45 GMT |
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Storm is going to be a legend, even after it'll go down. I'll tell my grandchildren about it. It's one huge threat and now it's acting like the viruses from the movies. Do you remember "Terminator", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? Skynet was a sort of computer virus that took over everything and s... |
10 September 2007
07:03 GMT |
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IBM has been making supercomputers for a long time now and they have a lot of experience in this domain. Their machines' computing power is huge, but it has been recently surpassed by new-comer Storm. It may sound as this "Storm" is a creator of such machines, but actually - it's not. It's a virus.Thin... |
7 September 2007
10:16 GMT |
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I've decided to call this the "Viagra Zombie" campaign because it involves... well... Viagra and zombies. Now, don't get excited, the blue pill won't transform you into anything hideous or stuff like that, I'm talking about spam-zombies here!Perhaps you know about the Viagra spam - all those unwan... |
6 September 2007
05:32 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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