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China leads Asia in malicious online activity
News All you need to do is install a spam plug-in for your botnet, and the botnet is in action," he said. China leads Asia in malicious online activity, racking up 42 percent of the action in the first half of 2007, up from 39 percent last year.
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
White Papers While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures. DDoS attacks, for instance, may be somewhat mitigated by...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
MessageLabs Intelligence: "Do you want spam with that spam?"
White Papers This increase is largely attributed to the huge rise in botnet activity over the past few weeks. This report provides the latest threat trends for October 2006, to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other...
[September 5, 2007, 19:35]
Crime surge sparks calls for internet Interpol
News Interpol, which helps national police forces to work together, has a financial and hi-tech crime sub-directorate that investigates cybercrime, including botnet activity. I would like to see more international organisation — some kind of internet...
[December 12, 2006, 16:15]
Police swoop on New Zealand botmaster
News Since "Operation Bot Roast" was announced last June, eight individuals have been indicted, pled guilty or been sentenced for crimes related to botnet activity, according to the FBI. New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet...
[November 30, 2007, 7:59]
Spam levels drop after plug pulled on hosting site
News Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks, a company that monitors botnet activity, speculated that McColo vanished at around 9am Eastern time on 10 November. Another provider, Global Crossing, declined to comment, telling Krebs the company "communicates and...
[November 13, 2008, 8:08]
US Homeland Security CIO blamed for IT woes
News Those episodes included unauthorised users hooking up personal computers to government networks, unauthorised software installations, classified emails travelling over unclassified networks, suspicious botnet activity, Trojans and virus infections...
[June 21, 2007, 10:35]
Three men arrested in botnet probe
News While a significant botnet was taken down, the arrests won't make a dent in the overall online criminal activity, said Craig Schmugar, a virus research manager at McAfee. Furthermore, the suspects allegedly used their network of hijacked computers...
[October 10, 2005, 10:10]
F-Secure sees smaller botnets on the rise
News Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become "zombies" in a botnet — which is a network used to send out spam and to mount further attacks on other machines. The zombie army can be controlled remotely, with the botnet creators usually trying...
[October 1, 2007, 9:23]
Increase in Windows attacks reported
News That sounds drastic.but it gets rid of the worm, gets rid of the botnet, plus you have a brand new box," according to the ISC. The SANS Internet Storm Center, which monitors network threats, noted on its Web site that several people had reported...
[September 1, 2006, 9:05]
Infamous Russian ISP behind Bank of India hack
News Instead, [our] research identified phishing, malicious code, botnet command-and-control, denial-of-service attacks and child pornography on every single server owned and operated by RBN," the spokesperson said.
[September 4, 2007, 9:10]
FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
News The spammers spreading this virus are preying on internet users and making their computers an unwitting part of criminal botnet activity," said the FBI in a press release. On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center...
[July 31, 2008, 8:15]
Security firm exposes massive crimeware server
News The server appears to have been the central control point for Coreflood, a password-stealing Trojan and botnet that has been quietly infiltrating corporate networks since 2001, according to Joe Stewart, director of malware research for security...
[August 8, 2008, 15:44]
Phone phishing attack hits US
News Monitoring botnet activity is "very difficult to do", due to the cross-border nature of the networks, according to Paul. Criminals have launched a blended attack which attempts to lure users to a malicious Web site via text message.
[June 23, 2006, 17:05]
Trend Micro joins the crowd in the cloud
News The company's web portal allows administrators to apply a policy to a specific ISP or country to block abusive senders, as well as run a "botnet report" to monitor their own network address space for malicious activity.
[July 31, 2007, 13:21]
Phishers harness Storm worm botnet
News A number of phishing sites may now be using domains previously attributed to the Storm worm botnet, according to security company F-Secure. Following a phishing run on Tuesday that attempted to dupe online users of the Halifax building society, F...
[January 10, 2008, 16:55]
Hackers send flood of bogus Microsoft updates
News SurfControl said that the Trojan advertises an infected computer to hackers so it can become part of a botnet - a network of thousands of hacker-controlled computers typically used for illegal activity, such as spamming.
[April 8, 2005, 13:30]
Cisco set to boost security in the cloud
News The new products include Cisco Security Cloud Services, Cisco IPS Sensor Software 7.0 for intrusion prevention, and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 Series 8.2 software with a botnet traffic filter for identifying infected clients and remote...
[April 21, 2009, 14:52]
ZombieMeter keeps tabs on hacked PCs
News A zombie, in this context, is a computer - typically connected to the Internet via a broadband connection, and connected to other such machines as part of a botnet - that has been infected by a worm or virus and is used remotely to launch DoS...
[May 27, 2005, 10:00]
Worm warfare rages on
News A botnet of about 5,500 zombies, or compromised computers, typically costs spammers, phishers or other crooks about $350 a week, security company Symantec has said. He said we may well see a period of intense activity in malicious software attacks...
[August 18, 2005, 9:00]
