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Official: Cybercrime Is Growing
Talkback Whether spam or bot or phish or pharm, all we need is to pay attention to the technology information scraps, and, above all, to the activity in the proverbial garages of California, that seedbed of innovation.
[April 11, 2005, 19:46]
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]
Storm Worm Spammers Exploit Halo 3 Buzz
News 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. For example, if I own a Trojan network, I pay you 20 cents per bot you get me," Anstis noted.
[October 10, 2007, 8:44]
Wikipedia Needs Help To Keep Growing
News Spambots are particularly problematic for smaller Wikipedia projects that are not able to constantly monitor the site and block the bot before it causes too much damage. This is generally a minor problem -- when the bot starts to insert links we...
[March 1, 2005, 14:40]
Experts Gather For Cybercrime Conference
News But criminals are organising better and moving to more sophisticated tactics, including the use of peer-to-peer technologies in their bot software. Authorities are cracking down and have had successes in catching, prosecuting and convicting...
[January 22, 2007, 15:11]
KiLL-ScRipT
Downloads There are many Protections (Secure Query, Anti Spam bot, Flood/Channel/Personal Protection, Trojan Scanner). The Ultimate Mirc Script. Utilities (Away system, URL Manager, Email Client, Fserv, Multi Network, IP/Country Lookup, Text to Char...
[November 1, 2005, 23:16]
Experts Clash Over Merits Of Anti-spam Authentication
Talkback Fitzgerald says that SPF is "breakable" by having bot nets no longer forge email addresses is kind of silly. It is not designed to tell you if any given email is spam or not. While a lot of spam uses forged email addresses, and thus SPF failures...
[October 10, 2005, 17:37]
Experts Clash Over Merits Of Anti-spam Authentication
News A spam-bot could easily pull popular MUA client settings for its own use, use process injection to usurp the installed MUA, use similar techniques to usurp the network stack, and protect itself with a rootkit," Fitzgerald said.
[October 10, 2005, 15:05]
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, September 2006
White Papers It also identifies the North American countries with the highest percentage of bot-infected computers as well as the continent's top region of origin for spam. In addition to gathering Internet-wide attack data for its biannual "Internet Security...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New Bagle Opens Another Spam Backdoor
News Such "bot" software can be used by spammers and more dangerous online denizens to disrupt access to Web sites or collect personal financial information. Unknown online vandals with an apparent connection to spam email have created a new version of...
[July 16, 2004, 8:35]
'Spim' Threat Hovers On Horizon
Talkback In the end I actually had a good 5 sentence discussion about how I thought they were a 'bot' and then they sent me the spam link. What's a bot? I used to get Spim all the time on Yahoo! Messenger, some were clearly "bots".
[April 4, 2004, 5:38]
China Leads Asia In Malicious Online Activity
News China's bot-infected computers made up 78 percent of those in the region. According to Symantec's biannual internet security threat report released on Wednesday, China topped the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, in malicious activity...
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
Encrypted Bots Could Be The Next Threat
News Botnets are often rented out by their owners, called bot herders, to relay spam and launch phishing scams to steal sensitive personal data for fraud. Once it is installed on a PC, bot software typically connects to Internet Relay Chat to listen for...
[November 15, 2005, 9:55]
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]
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]
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]
Splogs: Wreaking Havoc In The Blogosphere
News Someone basically scripted a bot to be able to [create] thousands of [fake] sites. The scourge of email — spam — has reinvented itself for the world of blogs, in a phenomenon experts have dubbed "splog".
[October 21, 2005, 16:00]
MySQL Worm Stopped
News Bot software represents a significant danger on the Internet because computers compromised by the programs can be controlled by an attacker, allowing anonymous assaults on Web sites, untraceable spam floods and a way for an attacker to steal data.
[January 31, 2005, 8:15]
Broadband Boom Makes UK Worst For Hacked PCs
News The fact that Britain has the highest percentage of bot infections is significant because it is directly linked to the rapid roll-out of broadband in this country,” explained Nigel Beighton, Symantec’s director of enterprise strategy.
[March 21, 2005, 12:10]
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]
