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'Zombie Attacks': Web Crackdown Widens
News This month's rash of "zombie attacks" on popular Web sites is already resulting in greater cooperation between law-enforcement agencies and the Internet industry, computer security experts said Friday.
[February 21, 2000, 9:06]
Phishing Attacks Powered By 'just Five' Zombie Networks
News All phishing attacks launched across the Internet come from one of just five networks of zombie PCs, according to research published by security firm CipherTrust this week. By monitoring which computers were involved with which phishing attacks...
[October 20, 2004, 18:10]
US Hacker Gets Five Years In The Slammer
News Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, from California, rented out space on this zombie network of compromised machines for the sending of spam and malware, and also for launching denial of service attacks. Ancheta advertised his zombie network - or botnet...
[May 9, 2006, 16:30]
ZombieMeter Keeps Tabs On Hacked PCs
News A zombie, in this context, is a computer - typically connected to the Internet via a broadband connection, and connected to other such machines as part of a botnet - that has been infected by a worm or virus and is used remotely to launch DoS...
[May 27, 2005, 10:00]
Windows XP Slammed As Gift To 'zombie' Hackers
News Hackers carry out DoS attacks by installing code, known as zombie software or Bots, on another user's computer without their permission or knowledge. Gibson managed to track down the individual, and is certain that all the zombie code used in the...
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
Lycos Should Send Its Zombie Army Home
Leader Only this time, the masses are zombie PCs controlled by Lycos' 'Make Love Not Spam' screensaver. Lycos needs to put its randy zombie army back in its pants and stop being so trigger happy. Our knee-jerk reaction, therefore, is to laud Lycos for...
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
Botnets And Spyware Still On The Rise
News Personal computers that play unwitting host to zombie code are proliferating at a startling pace, according to a new report. Computer security experts have identified zombie networks, or networks of systems with bot software installed, as a rising...
[July 12, 2005, 14:20]
Zombie Networks Behind Seasonal Cybercrime
News According to communications firm Energis, online crime appears to be occurring in cyclical patterns related to the creation of botnets -- zombie armies of PCs that have been taken control of without the owners' knowledge.
[September 30, 2004, 17:45]
Australian Government Gears Up For Zombie Battle
News Zombie networks] are definitely the major cause of infection… ISPs need to get involved because it is their networks that are being used to launch the attacks. Each will regularly receive a list of IP addresses that identify computers on their...
[November 7, 2005, 9:30]
'Clean Up This Internet Effluent Now'
News What we're now seeing is that spammers are essentially bankrolling virus writers -- or people who are capable of writing viruses -- to harvest very large networks of zombie machines that can then be used to send huge quantities of spam or launch...
[May 7, 2004, 16:10]
'Storm Worm' Slithers On
News The compromised machine becomes a zombie in a network called a botnet. While each of the infected hosts share lists of other infected hosts, no one machine has a full list of the entire botnet — each only has a subset, making it difficult to gauge...
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
Zombie Masters Hunted Down
News A zombie is a computer - typically running Windows and connected to the Internet via a broadband connection and without security software to protect it - that has been infected by a Trojan horse or other malicious code and is used remotely to send...
[October 31, 2005, 9:35]
Hackers Strike At Islamic Web Sites
News System administrators should check their systems for zombie agent software, said the NIPC. Zombie agent software is software that is installed onto servers without the system administrators' knowledge, and then used to attack specific target servers.
[September 18, 2001, 10:13]
Managing Complexity With Integrated Message Management
White Papers While the rapid and continued evolution of email threats such as directory harvesting, phishing and zombie attacks have been well publicized in the past year, the newest messaging threat stems from the widespread use of Instant Messaging (IM) by...
[March 21, 2008, 10:09]
Does Wi-Fi Security Matter?
Talkback The disadvantage Wi-Fi security has is that when people use your connection, monitor/capture your data, make your machine a zombie for use in attacks against others.most people don't know. Not alerting the user is key to continuing to exploit them.
[June 28, 2006, 15:05]
Most Spam Generated By Botnets, Says Expert
News More than 70 percent of spam is being sent from zombie networks. Linford said that once blacklisted, the owner sells the botnet to people who launch denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. Linford said that Spamhaus had been targeted in at least 22 DDOS...
[September 22, 2004, 18:10]
DDoS Threatens Financial Institutions - Get Prepared!
White Papers In addition, a DDoS attack is generated with the help of many (potentially hundreds of thousands) unsuspecting zombie machines and it is not possible to stop the DDoS or protect your network with traditional security measures.
[May 5, 2006, 1:00]
'Suicidal Osama Bin Laden' Recruits A Zombie Army
News The message claims to contain pictures taken by CNN journalists of Osama Bin Laden's suicide but, once the file is opened, it installs a Trojan horse that effectively recruits the infected machine into the author's zombie army, which can then be...
[July 23, 2004, 16:45]
Malware In Popular Networks
White Papers Such compromised computers are often combined into a 'botnet' of 'zombie agents', which can then be used for Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on any target. While outbreaks of mass-mailing viruses are making the news, the much greater number...
[April 19, 2006, 1:01]
Microsoft Zombie Hacker Denial Condemned
News Hackers carry out DoS attacks by installing what is commonly known as "zombie software" on the computers of many unsuspecting users. Microsoft's assurances that Windows XP will not make it easier for hackers to launch damaging Denial of Service...
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
