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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]
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. When run, this zombie code sends data requests across the Internet to a target network selected by...
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
'Clean Up This Internet Effluent Now'
News The use of large zombie networks is definitely becoming the en vogue technique of choice within the hard-core spammer community. What we're now seeing is that spammers are essentially bankrolling virus writers -- or people who are capable of...
[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]
UK Rising In The Spam Charts
News According to Sophos, more than 60 percent of spam is relayed by zombie computers — systems that have been hijacked by viruses. Home users account for most computers on zombie networks. If a user has up-to-date anti-malware software, their computer...
[October 14, 2005, 14:00]
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]
'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]
McAfee Forms Zombie-killer Alliance
News Their zombie detection technology is a great fit with our products, and we'll be able to send alerts to their product that a system is sending or receiving an attack so that they can point their scans to that part of the network," said Ted Julian...
[August 21, 2001, 10:03]
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]
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. According to Microsoft it will not be possible for a hacker to run malicious software such as Trojan horses on a...
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
Identity Theft Ring Affects At Least 50 Banks
News The data theft was initially reported to be carried out by a modified variant of a spyware application, called CoolWebSearch (CWS), but Sunbelt has now found that the activities are carried out by a separate Trojan, which is downloaded at the same...
[August 8, 2005, 18:30]
Special: Denial Of Service Round-up
News Another university hit with 'zombie' hacking code Universities are proving an easy target for hackers searching for dupes. Network Associates detect Web attack agents Internet security firm Network Associates said on Monday that it had detected...
[February 9, 2000, 14:45]
A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Round-up
News Another university hit with 'zombie' hacking code Universities are proving an easy target for hackers searching for dupes. Network Associates detect Web attack agents Internet security firm Network Associates said on Monday that it had detected...
[February 9, 2001, 6:06]
Storm Worm Variant Using China Quake Emails
News Opening the purported video link on the site runs executable code that infects the computer with malicious code that can be used to turn the machine into a zombie on a spam botnet. A US-based IT security watchdog on Thursday issued a clear warning...
[June 20, 2008, 8:03]
What Good Are 1,000 Remote-controlled PCs? review
Reviews Scale this up to 1,000, and you start getting 'botnets' -- invisible webs connecting unrelated, random 'zombie' computers to one individual or group of individuals who can control the data harvested off the linked computers or who can upload new...
[November 29, 2005, 7:55]
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]
Cybercriminals Get Stuck Into Honeypots
News Criminals would use legions of zombie computers called botnets to bombard honeypot networks with data to hinder or stop them working, otherwise known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to Kaspersky's Malware Evolution: 2005.
[April 4, 2006, 16:25]
Increase In Windows Attacks Reported
News The messaging-security company has seen a 23 percent growth in the total number of so-called zombie PCs it has detected and attributed that to the spread of Mocbot worm variants that exploit MS06-040.
[September 1, 2006, 9:05]
Xombe Trojan Imitates Microsoft Security Warning
News Dunham said that once a "large army of zombie computers" has been built up, attackers could use them for more serious crimes such as ID theft and banking fraud. Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at security company iDefense, said that the...
[January 12, 2004, 11:10]
Is Vigilante Hacking Legal?
News Karnow pointed to "self help" provisions that allow citizens to take action to mitigate an obvious nuisance as a way of dealing with intruders and so-called zombie servers. A similar number of computers are believed to be infected by the Code Red...
[February 28, 2003, 8:04]
