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Web outage blamed on zombies
News The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net" -- a large network of zombified home PCs -- Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies said Wednesday.
[June 17, 2004, 9:35]
Hackers can launch attacks over IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap -- a program that discovers devices on a network -- with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of security for Whitehat UK...
[October 11, 2004, 15:05]
AOL IM bot hides behind encryption
News Security researchers also suspect that the bot may be using peer-to-peer techniques rather than relying on a central command control server to issue orders to a network of zombie computers. AOL Instant Messenger users who click on a malicious link...
[May 2, 2006, 10:35]
Encrypted bots could be the next threat
News Once it is installed on a PC, bot software typically connects to Internet Relay Chat to listen for commands. The IRC traffic can be a giveaway to the presence of bot software on a PC and can be spotted by security software such as intrusion...
[November 15, 2005, 9:55]
Botnets and spyware still on the rise
News Incidents involving the malicious code, also known as bot code, reached 13,000 from April through June, according to a report from antivirus-software maker McAfee. McAfee estimated that 63 percent more machines were exploited by bot programs and by...
[July 12, 2005, 14:20]
MySQL worm stopped
News A group of computers controlled by bot software, known as bots or zombies, disrupted Internet service provider Akamai's network in June. While the thousands of compromised systems hardly compare to the millions of systems infected by MSBlast or...
[January 31, 2005, 8:15]
Fizzer virus secrets revealed
News Once you have that, you can control the bot (virus program) through IRC. When they send the uninstall command, it leaves no trace of the bot. Members of the chat-network security group IRC/Unity have decoded the manner in which the creator of the...
[May 20, 2003, 11:31]
The real cost of the Coreflood botnet
News If the user also chanced to be on the corporate network when that happened, the bot would then be able to take advantage of that structure and be a threat to everyone on that network. What he found was not only the bot's source code but also 50GB...
[November 10, 2008, 9:51]
Storm worm spammers exploit Halo 3 buzz
News For example, if I own a Trojan network, I pay you 20 cents per bot you get me," Anstis noted. Marshal's Anstis said this scam could herald the rise of outsourced bot-herding whereby the botnet controller pays a third party to acquire further bots.
[October 10, 2007, 8:44]
Three men arrested in botnet probe
News The "bot herders", as insiders call them, are thought to have threatened to bring down the company's Web site by launching a DoS attack, prosecutors said. There are other bot commanders who will take the place of the ones arrested.
[October 10, 2005, 10:10]
Zombie networks implicated in ID theft
News A person whose computer is infected with bot software runs the risk of having sensitive information such as account passwords and credit card numbers sent to the controller of the network. At least a million computers worldwide are unwitting hosts...
[March 15, 2005, 8:15]
Second Sasser spreads faster
News Sasser is proving to be an ordeal for the university, which has to deal with about 5,000 compromises by worms, viruses and bot software every semester, Conti said. Moreover, recent modifications to attack bot software cause other malicious programs...
[May 4, 2004, 9:00]
Worm could be clearing path for DDoS attack
News They consist of a commonly used piece of network administration software called Virtual Network Computing (VNC), and an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) "bot". The IRC bot, when activated, connects to a remote server and waits for commands, which could...
[March 10, 2003, 8:53]
BoomBot
Downloads BoomBot is a developer's framework for writing a bot connecting to the AIM network. It manages the network communication for the bots so that they can be easily written without worrying about AIM itself at all.
[August 17, 2007, 8:00]
IM bot will talk for cash
News ActiveBuddy is still in negotiations with all of the major IM networks to host the so-called bot on its debut, which is expected mid-February. A test version of the tool, called ToBeSmarterChild, was launched a little more than two weeks ago on the...
[January 30, 2003, 12:12]
Bot herders go low key
News First, an increase in the numbers of hackers hoping to put together networks has made the task of securing zombie computers more competitive, so it is harder for the "bot herder" to amass a larger number of drone computers.
[November 18, 2005, 10:10]
Phone phishing attack hits US
News Once machines have been compromised, they become part of a bot network, which can then be used to launch distributed denial of service attacks, install keylogging software and store account information.
[June 23, 2006, 17:05]
Remote tool attacks Windows servers
News It also acts like an IRC bot, listening to specific channels on the chat network and taking commands from attackers via IRC. The IRC bot is one step removed from a worm and less disruptive. This bot compromises computers using a flaw that Microsoft...
[August 4, 2003, 8:55]
Zombie tool exploits Windows and antivirus flaws
News An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes in Microsoft code. Additionally, the bot program tries to exploit five flaws in Microsoft Windows, the most...
[November 30, 2006, 8:24]
Worm targets Linux home routers
News Sans Institute handler GN White reported the issue in a blog post on Tuesday, noting that there was a chance the bot was "still evolving". The botnet appears to have been discontinued, according to IRC logs by 'DRS', who DroneBL said was the bot...
[March 25, 2009, 12:06]
