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Botnet more dangerous than Storm?
Blog Reports are starting to circulate of a botnet being seeded that could be more insidious than Storm, currently the largest and most sophisticated network of compromised computers. The Trojan and the botnet it is seeking to build has been called...
[February 8, 2008, 9:26]
BBC responds to botnet illegality claims
Blog The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet. BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, and launch a distrbuted denial of service attack...
[March 16, 2009, 13:27]
Skype may assist botnet attacks
News Today, such attacks often involve many hacked computers, so-called "zombies," that have been networked in a so-called "botnet. Internet phone services such as Skype and Vonage could provide a means for cybercriminals to send spam and launch attacks...
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
Phone Trojan 'has botnet features'
News A piece of mobile malware has the capacity to enable a hacker to build a botnet of phones, according to security vendor Trend Micro. In short, it appears to be a botnet for mobile phones," wrote Jonathan Leopando of the Trend Micro technical...
[July 16, 2009, 12:55]
Botnet malware proliferates on Windows PCs
News A computer compromised by such a Trojan horse, popularly referred to as a zombie PC, can be used by miscreants in a network of bots, or "botnet", to relay spam and launch cyberattacks. Malicious remote control software continues to be one of the...
[October 25, 2006, 9:40]
Engate Delivers Enterprise-Class Email Protection and Preemptively Stops Progressive Botnet Attacks
White Papers Unfortunately, over the past three years, unsolicited emails such as spam, phish, dangerous attachments and botnet attacks began to overwhelm employee's inboxes at an alarming rate. Atreus Systems delivers industry-leading telecommunications...
[January 21, 2009, 0:00]
Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
News He then used this network of hijacked computers, known as a botnet, to send a massive amount of traffic to the domain name system (DNS) servers of the Global Traffic Management division of Akamai, prosecutors alleged.
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
US charges Brazilian with operating botnet
News A Brazilian man has been charged in connection with operating a botnet composed of more than 100,000 computers infected with malicious software allegedly designed to send spam, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.
[August 22, 2008, 8:17]
Internet guru warns of botnet pandemic
News Sunner said around the turn of the year security experts were watching one botnet, called Spam Thru, which not only had its own antivirus protection to clear other botnets off 'its patch' but had the potential to be 10 times more productive than...
[January 29, 2007, 8:39]
BBC bought botnet
Blog Comment However the thing you don't mention from the article is that "owning" the botnet allowed the Click team to let the owners of the PC's affected know and take corrective action to better protect their computers.
[March 13, 2009, 7:06]
Security firms reveal botnet on Twitter
News A Twitter account can be used as the command centre for harnessing a botnet of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec have reported. However, in this case, the Twittering botnet does not necessarily highlight a...
[August 17, 2009, 8:52]
Brazillian botnet
Talkback "A botnet is a network of computers infected with software that can be remotely controlled. Should not this read, "network of windows based computers"?
[August 25, 2008, 13:46]
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]
Storm botnet 'services' could be sold
News The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.
[October 16, 2007, 15:25]
BBC bought botnet
Blog Comment Thank you for your comments, dpirie: I agree the programme could have been educational, but you don't have to buy a botnet to let people know they are a bad thing. Marc Fielding: The reason I was concerned is because the BBC bought a botnet, and...
[March 13, 2009, 15:51]
Dutch police and FBI crack Shadow botnet
News The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit has cracked the Shadow botnet — thought to contain 100,000 PCs — in a joint operation with the FBI. Two men have been arrested in connection with the botnet: a 19-year-old Dutch man who sold the software; and his...
[August 14, 2008, 15:00]
Botnet expert: Cut cash flow to cybercriminals
News Technology is not enough to help the security industry keep botnets from stealing people's money and committing denial-of-service attacks, a top botnet researcher said on Wednesday. Researchers have focused on trying to stop attacks, but once they...
[April 23, 2009, 9:31]
Storm botnet goes quiet
News The creators of the Storm botnet have either ceased sending out spam or have moved on to a newer botnet, security researchers have concluded. Marshal, a security vendor that specialises in spam protection, on Tuesday noted a marked downturn in the...
[October 16, 2008, 9:17]
BBC bought botnet
Blog The British Broadcasting Corporation bought its own botnet. Using 22,000 computers that had already been infected, the BBC bought software that enabled it to control the botnet. The Beeb acquired a means of controlling a botnet, which, in Robertson...
[March 12, 2009, 16:40]
Mobile-botnet threat 'a ticking time bomb'
News Chia Wing Fei, security response manager at F-Secure Security Labs, told ZDNet Asia in an email interview that the security vendor has dealt with viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware targeting the mobile platform, but has not yet encountered a bot...
[October 27, 2008, 12:20]
