Botnets And Spyware Still On The Rise
News Computer security experts have identified zombie networks, or networks of systems with bot software installed, as a rising threat to consumers and businesses. Incidents involving the malicious code, also known as bot code, reached 13,000 from April...
[July 12, 2005, 14:20]
AOL IM Bot Hides Behind Encryption
News A computer that has bot software installed -- for example through a malicious Web site or Trojan horse -- is called a zombie. Security researchers also suspect that the bot may be using peer-to-peer techniques rather than relying on a central...
[May 2, 2006, 10:35]
Zombie Tool Exploits Windows And Antivirus Flaws
News A computer taken by such a bot is popularly referred to as a "zombie PC". 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.
[November 30, 2006, 8:24]
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]
The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, And Disrupting Botnets
White Papers These systems are infected with a bot that communicates with a bot controller and other bots to form what is commonly referred to as a zombie army or botnet. Global Internet threats are undergoing a profound transformation from attacks designed...
[June 9, 2006, 1:00]
Encrypted Bots Could Be The Next Threat
News A computer that has bot software installed — for example through a malicious Web site or Trojan horse — is called a zombie. Once it is installed on a PC, bot software typically connects to Internet Relay Chat to listen for commands.
[November 15, 2005, 9:55]
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]
US Hacker Gets Five Years In The Slammer
News Others running bot networks may be based anywhere in the world, meaning that to truly crack this problem more international co-operation is required. Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, from California, rented out space on this zombie network of compromised...
[May 9, 2006, 16:30]
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]
Worm Sparks Rise In Zombie PCs
News On Tuesday, CipherTrust reported a 23 percent growth in the total number of zombie PCs detected this week alone, due, they said, to the release of a modification of the Mocbot worm. Messaging security company CipherTrust says it is seeing a massive...
[August 22, 2006, 17:10]
Exploit Targets Hole In Windows
News Then it might try to pull down adware, spyware or a bot program," that can turn the computer into a zombie to be used for attacking other machines or sending spam, or just leave a hole on the computer through which sensitive data could be stolen...
[December 29, 2005, 9:10]
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]
Microsoft: Zombies Most Prevalent Windows Threat
News More than 60 percent of compromised Windows PCs scanned by Microsoft's Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool between January 2005 and March 2006 were found to be running malicious bot software, the company said.
[June 13, 2006, 9:20]
Hackers: Show Me The Money
News Trojan horses can be used to dupe computer users into running a bot program, which in turn can help launch denial of service attacks for financial gain. The virus would load software onto users' computers in order to provide a means for bulk...
[November 4, 2004, 7:43]
JPEG Exploit Could Beat Antivirus, Says Expert
Talkback Bot (or zombie) networks create unique problems for organisations and individual PC users as systems can be automatically upgraded with new exploits very quickly, allowing attackers to outpace efforts to patch or download security updates.
[September 30, 2004, 16:08]
ISPs Under Strain From Barrage Of DDoS Attacks
News Malan explained that, with application-based attacks, bot-infected computers worldwide make connections to a targeted site, then "use an application protocol to deliver a perfectly valid request, not a vulnerability, not something that an IDS or...
[November 12, 2008, 9:35]
Fighting The Zombie Hordes
Leader This is woefully inadequate: bot software, like many viruses, trojans and the like, is explicitly designed to detect and circumvent these measures. When the FBI went looking for computers infected with illicit remote control software, it found over...
[June 15, 2007, 16:51]
Californian Bot Herder Pleads Guilty
News A US man has pleaded guilty to leasing out networks of compromised computers to criminals so they can carry out denial of service and spam attacks. Twenty-year old Californian Jeanson James Ancheta faces up to six years in prison for felony charges...
[January 24, 2006, 15:55]
