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Lycos Launches Anti-spam Zombie Army
Talkback If the zombie army was 66,000,000 instead of 66,000 then you might get somewhere but 66,000 subscribers relates to about 5,000 users at any one time not using their computers and so attacking the spammers, assuming that there are 100 spammer...
[December 5, 2004, 2:27]
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. This software can then be instructed to send masses of data requests to a server of the hacker's choice.
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
Zombie Tool Exploits Windows And Antivirus Flaws
News A computer taken by such a bot is popularly referred to as a "zombie PC". When installed on a PC, Spybot opens a back door in the system and connects to an Internet Relay Chat server to let the remote attacker control the compromised computer.
[November 30, 2006, 8:24]
'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]
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]
'Massive' Identity Theft Ring Uncovered
News During the course of infecting a machine, he [Jordan] discovered that a) the machine he was testing became a spam zombie and b) he noticed a call back to a remote server. Some of the data gathered is then saved in a file hosted on a US-based server...
[August 8, 2005, 12:40]
AOL IM Bot Hides Behind Encryption
News Security researchers also suspect that the bot may be using peer-to-peer techniques rather than relying on a central command control server to issue orders to a network of zombie computers. A computer that has bot software installed -- for example...
[May 2, 2006, 10:35]
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]
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. Under the law, the victim of an attack could conceivably shut down the...
[February 28, 2003, 8:04]
'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]
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]
'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]
Staying One Step Ahead In The Anti-spam Arms Race
News What do you make of the 'zombie' threat (Internet-connected PCs used for spamming after being infected by a virus)? There is a significant problem with zombie computers. Spam can be stopped at various places: recipient's desktop, mail server...
[June 16, 2004, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Perhaps this is the key phrase inserted by my programmer during that lost summer of '88, which upon hearing turns me into a single-minded killer zombie. Kent highlighted some key factors — legal digital files with no viruses or spyware in a...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Spamhaus Rebuts Vendor Accusations
News The vendors disagreed with Linford's claims that email systems were on the verge of collapse due to the worm creating so-called zombie computers, that are then being used to spread spam via ISP's mail servers.
[February 7, 2005, 13:00]
Special: Denial Of Service Round-up
News Network Associates detect Web attack agents Internet security firm Network Associates said on Monday that it had detected each of the three major "Zombie" agents, which have been attacking well known Web sites such as Yahoo!
[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]
Lycos Launches Anti-spam Zombie Army
Talkback Zombie Army' appears an appropriate term as there seems to be a big battles occuring on the net behind the scenes involving terabytes of data and increasing army of antispammers using this screen saver (60,000 worldwilde and growing fast).
[December 2, 2004, 1:07]
Experts Warn Of Multiple Computer Attacks
News A distributed denial of service attack forces a Web server or similar computer system offline by overwhelming it with fake traffic from many remotely controlled, or "zombie", computers. The danger of a mass Web attack may have been underestimated...
[October 4, 2000, 14:14]
Spammers 'tricking ISPs' Into Sending Junk Mail
News Previously, these zombie PCs have been used as mail servers to send spam emails directly to recipients. According to SpamHaus -- an anti-spam organisation which compiles blacklists blocking eight billion messages a day -- a new piece of malware has...
[February 2, 2005, 16:05]
