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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]
Botnet Threats And Solutions
White Papers This paper examines the existence of and interactions within the botnet ecosystem that enables phishing and its ensuing damage. It also provides information on how businesses and consumers can protect themselves against these attacks.
[November 29, 2006, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Three Men Arrested In Botnet Probe
News Furthermore, the suspects allegedly used their network of hijacked computers, known as a botnet, in an extortion scheme against an unidentified US business. With 100,000 infected computers, the now dismantled botnet is one of the largest ever seen...
[October 10, 2005, 10:10]
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]
FBI Announces Botnet Milestone
News The amusingly named Operation Bot Roast, being carried out in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft and the International Botnet Task Force, is an initiative aimed at revealing the scale of the botnet problem and prosecuting those...
[June 14, 2007, 11:13]
Man Arrested Over Botnet Accusations
Talkback Personally, I would have a chat with the people in charge of the computer systems in use at the Weapons Division of the US Naval Air Warfare Center and at the US Department of Defense. Because, given the right choices made and maintained, botnets...
[November 4, 2005, 23:33]
Botnet Malware Proliferates On Windows PCs
Talkback I do my bit by reporting the more active addresses to the relevant ISP to allow them to notify the PC owner that they are infected. US ISPs are 50/50 with some instantly acting but others ignoring it until threatened.
[October 25, 2006, 10:46]
Botnet Malware Proliferates On Windows PCs
Talkback If ISP's would be charged triple or more for outbound malware/spyware/viral/etc traffic the problem would probably be under control sooner then later. Of course, it would also help if ISP's would be able to offload their "fines" to vendors that...
[October 26, 2006, 23:38]
Botnet More Dangerous Than Storm?
Blog Comment Sadly, there is a benefit to building these botnets. Amongst other things these are the systems which pump millions of spam emails into the internet pushing pump-and-dump shares, pen*s enlargement, a cocktail of non-recreational drugs and $100 of...
[February 11, 2008, 8:25]
Government Sees Silver Lining In Botnet Cloud
Talkback This Guy should be shot out of our Royal Navy's finest cannons. How we can have a schmuck like this working for us is really scary. He should go work in Sony PR.
[November 24, 2005, 19:06]
Government Sees Silver Lining In Botnet Cloud
Talkback he actually said it completely jokingly and has been completely misquoted in this article for ZDNet to get a story where there really isnt one.
[November 25, 2005, 8:40]
Government Sees Silver Lining In Botnet Cloud
Talkback Hi John, Could you please explain which of Nigel Hickson's comments you believe are misquoted? As our article makes clear, I interviewed him later that morning to ensure I understood the point he was making.
[November 25, 2005, 15:25]
Botnet More Dangerous Than Storm?
Blog Comment I wonder what it is that these people get out of unleashing these viruses, I suspect some are linked to anti-virus companies, otherwise why would anyone risk going to jail if there is no benefit?
[February 9, 2008, 17:18]
Government Sees Silver Lining In Botnet Cloud
News Nigel Hickson, head of European e-commerce and telecoms regulation at the DTI, told a London conference on Monday "we should celebrate that we are number one for [botnet] infections. The suggestion that botnet infections have their positive side...
[November 21, 2005, 14:05]
Botnet Malware Proliferates On Windows PCs
Talkback Have serious doubts that there is any way to prevent this type of intrusion on a "swiss cheese' OS, like windoze.
[October 25, 2006, 14:48]
