Arrests made over 'Half-Life 2' code theft
News The timing of the arrest announcement lends credence to reports in German technology publication Heise Online and other venues that the "Half Life 2" theft may be tied to Agobot, the destructive Trojan horse.
[June 11, 2004, 8:35]
'Blaster-type event' forecast for summer
News That flaw, in a Windows security component known as the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS), has been added to an automated attack agent, or bot, known as AgoBot. Symantec confirmed that it has also captured a version of the AgoBot...
[April 29, 2004, 8:30]
Bagle uses Outlook flaw to speed replication
News Phatbot, also known as Agobot, is a powerful piece of malware that opens a back door on a computer and connects to its own peer-to-peer network of infected machines. We have seen lots of different versions of this Agobot, but someone started...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
Second German arrest 'unrelated to Sasser'
News The program, known as Agobot, has caused concern among many security experts because it allows a single individual to control a vast network of computers, potentially as a means to attack Internet sites.
[May 11, 2004, 9:20]
The Evolution of Malicious IRC Bots
White Papers This analysis will demonstrate how many of the common IRC bots such as Agobot, Randex, Spybot, and Phatbot actually share common source code. This paper will examine the core features of popular IRC bots and track their evolution from a single code...
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
New Zafi variant goes for Google
News Wednesday was a busy day for antivirus companies because apart from dealing with the new Zafi worm they also found a new version of MyDoom and another variant of the Agobot worm, which uses an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server to give hackers...
[October 28, 2004, 12:04]
Phatbot suspect released on bail
News Phatbot, also known as Agobot, has caused concern among many security experts because it allows a single individual to control a vast network of computers, potentially as a means to attack commercial Web sites.
[May 14, 2004, 17:00]
Sasser worm author arrested in Germany
News Separately, police in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said they had arrested a 21-year-old man who confessed to programing the Internet worm Agobot, which was later renamed as Phatbot. Spokesman Frank Federau for the Lower Saxony police...
[May 9, 2004, 11:05]
Companies escape Sasser infection
News SBC warned those users to patch their systems, turn on the firewall and install antivirus software to protect against Sasser and Gaobot, also known as Agobot, which the company considered to be a greater threat.
[May 5, 2004, 8:40]
Rewards shift nature of worm hunt
News At about the same time as the Sasser arrest, there was also an arrest of a suspected writer of Agobot. The Sasser computer worm may mark a turning point in law enforcement's ability to catch and prosecute computer virus authors.
[June 11, 2004, 11:25]
Sasser attacks provide fodder for new worm
News If somebody does get it, they probably already have Sasser and, most likely, Agobot as well. Computers compromised by the Sasser worm may be vulnerable to a scavenging program that exploits a flaw in the software left behind by the worm, a security...
[May 14, 2004, 9:10]
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
News Gembe is believed to be the programmer behind Agobot, a well-known worm used to create botnets that can be used in DDoS attacks or for other purposes, such as relaying junk email. Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US...
[October 6, 2008, 13:23]
New Bagle spreads strongly
News Another program with publicly available source code, Agobot, has more than 900 variations. A new version of the Bagle computer virus started spreading on Monday among PCs connected to the Internet, and antivirus companies warned that more variants...
[July 20, 2004, 8:55]
Global security vendors fail malware test
News Larry Bridwell, global security strategist for Grisoft, said that the part of its anti-malware application, AVG 7.5 Professional Edition, that detects signatures had failed to detect one of the W32 agobot Trojan variants, but that the anti-spyware...
[June 8, 2007, 12:24]
