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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]
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. CipherTrust also found that 70 percent of zombie PCs are also used to send...
[October 20, 2004, 18:10]
ZombieMeter Keeps Tabs On Hacked PCs
News The organisation launched "Operation Spam Zombie" and plans to ask Internet service providers to quarantine zombies and to help users clean the PCs. A zombie, in this context, is a computer - typically connected to the Internet via a broadband...
[May 27, 2005, 10:00]
Zombie Masters Hunted Down
News Zombie PCs have become a serious problem that requires more industry action, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said earlier this year. The FTC has launched "Operation Spam Zombie" and asked Internet service providers to quarantine zombies and...
[October 31, 2005, 9:35]
Stealth Virus Warning Sounded Again
News Instead of trying to create viruses and worms that infect as many computers as possible, malware authors are instead trying to infect 5,000 or 10,000 computers at a time to create personalised zombie armies.
[May 25, 2005, 11:15]
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]
Zombie Tool Exploits Windows And Antivirus Flaws
News A computer taken by such a bot is popularly referred to as a "zombie PC". Bot software such as Spybot is the most prevalent threat to Windows PCs, according to a recent Microsoft security report. Additionally, hackers often steal the victim's data...
[November 30, 2006, 8:24]
Most Spam Generated By Botnets, Says Expert
News More than 70 percent of spam is being sent from zombie networks. Linford said that every week more than 100,000 PCs are recruited into botnets without the owner's knowledge. A botnet is a collection of -- usually -- Windows-based PCs that have been...
[September 22, 2004, 18:10]
Brightmail's New Software Tackles Zombies
News Brightmail has released a new version of its anti-spam software, Anti-Spam 6.0, which includes features designed to deal with zombie PCs, an improved ability to deal with foreign-language spam and a Web-based management console.
[July 1, 2004, 14:30]
Microsoft's Anti-spam Plan 'hijacked By Zombies'
News However, they fear that in practice this approach might be flawed, because most spam is sent from zombie PCs, computers that have been infected by a type of virus or Trojan horse. I suspect the number of machines in the zombie army is getting...
[June 4, 2004, 13:55]
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. We all hate spammers, and few of us would shed a tear...
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
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]
Windows XP Slammed As Gift To 'zombie' Hackers
News Gibson believes the great threat with XP is that it will eventually be installed on PCs of millions of home users, many of whom will be unable to make their systems secure from hackers attempting to install zombie code.
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
Lycos Launches Anti-spam Zombie Army
News In its 'make love not spam' campaign, Lycos entices users to join the zombie army with the following message: The company said that when the screensaver is active it displays the location and URL of the sites users' PCs are attacking, and that...
[November 30, 2004, 12:55]
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. Gibson predicts there will soon be tens of millions of PCs running Windows XP.
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
Protect And Survive
Leader The latest Internet worm, uses social engineering, spamming, and a Trojan horse to take over the PCs of its victims and expand its network of zombie PCs. The news from the US of a peculiarly innovative security attack that combines PCs, the Net and...
[November 10, 2004, 11:13]
Spamhaus Rebuts Vendor Accusations
News Although the zombie drone problem is very serious, there are solutions out there for ISPs that will minimize the effects of zombie PCs sending out tons of spam," said François Bourdeau, director of marketing for Vircom.
[February 7, 2005, 13:00]
Email Meltdown Claims Slammed
News Although the zombie drone problem is very serious, there are solutions out there for ISPs that will minimize the effects of zombie PCs sending out tons of spam. Earlier this week Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, warned that email...
[February 4, 2005, 13:10]
Microsoft's Anti-piracy Plan Condemned
News Lots of compromised and zombie PCs exist now -- there are lots of illegal copies of Windows out there and not many consumers are savvy enough to keep their computers up to date. However, Gartner is warning IT administrators that WGA will result in...
[January 31, 2005, 8:00]
Bagle Author Releases 'dangerous' Assembler Code
News Infected PCs download a Trojan that effectively enlists that computer into the worm author's Zombie army, which can be used to distribute spam and other malware and to launch DDoS attacks. F-Secure's Hyppönen said another theory is that the author...
[July 5, 2004, 13:30]
