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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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn that Mariposa, once one of the largest botnets in the world, is slowly, but steadily, growing back to its former self.Mariposa (Butterfly) was the name given to a particular botnet, which at its peak, was made up of as many as 12 million infected computers spread across 190 ... |
25 May 2011
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have identified a new variant of LICAT, a file infector associated with the ZeuS trojan, which doubles the daily number of domains the malware contacts to recieve updates.LICAT is a file infecting virus discovered at the beginning of October, which propagates by adding its malici... |
3 December 2010
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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
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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
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