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
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Following the recent takedown of the notorious McColo ISP, the control servers of several major botnets have been knocked offline, rendering the armies of zombie PCs out of the reach of their owners. Researchers from the FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab have fought and succeeded to keep the largest of these botnets, ... |
1 December 2008
05:29 GMT |
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It has been discovered that two of the botnets that are responsible for the largest number of spam attacks, Srizbi and Rustock, share the same principle when it comes to malware spreading. They both use Trojan.Exchanger, a type of malware that comes with unsolicited email. Each time users decide to check what's ... |
21 August 2008
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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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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
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The all so hated billions of spam messages are coming from a surprisingly small number of zombie networks, also known as botnets, according to net security firm Marshall, who analyzed the numbers. There is a big variation from each and every one of the group, but the metrics for the passed month indicate that 85 perc... |
3 March 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Electoral Cyber crime started last October, when the first wave of spam 'advertising' for a candidate was released into the wild. And the wildly election hype that the spammers were counting on did not fail to provide, Ron Paul's supporters falling for the trick. It was later linked to an Ukrainian bot... |
18 February 2008
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