Stories about: Botnet  

Here are the main events of the week between September 10 – September 16

Suriya Prakash provides details of the threat and why it's so difficult to stop it

The company's Digital Crimes Unit continues to go after cyber threats

He rented out the network for just $1,500/ €1,184 at a time

His former girlfriend is accused of money laundering

Another big event is abused by the owners of a spam botnet

The number of IPs used to send out spam dropped from 120,000 to 21,000 almost immediately

There’s less spam in the world after two of Grum’s servers have been taken down

Over 10 days have passed since Lookout notified Yahoo! and the issue still isn’t fixed

Lookout researchers present a plausible theory regarding the alleged botnet

McAfee experts have analyzed the threat which seems to use the same server since 2009

Some security researchers agree, but others still believe that malware is to blame

The spam messages are sent via Yahoo's free email service

The company has also found evidence that may be used for a criminal investigation

The threat, active from June 25, costs only $125 (100 EUR)

The presentation features Ramnit, Palevo, Cutwail, Sality, IRCBot and others

The main events of the week between May 28 and June 3