Microsoft to target other botnets with legal weapon
Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centers.
View ArticleSpanish police take down massive Mariposa botnet
Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a major botnet network of infected computers.
View ArticleFBI embeds cyber-investigators in Ukraine, Estonia
Hoping to catch cybercrooks, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun embedding agents with law enforcement agencies in Estonia, the Ukraine and the Netherlands.
View ArticleZeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out
Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.
View ArticleAfter takedown, botnet-linked ISP Troyak resurfaces
Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he...
View ArticleZeus botnet exploits unpatched PDF flaw
The Zeus botnet is now using an unpatched flaw in Adobe's PDF document format to infect users with malicious code, security researchers said today.
View ArticleNew Storm worm may not last long
A new variant of the Storm worm has emerged, but it does not appear to be as well-designed as its older relative, according to computer security researchers.
View ArticleTexas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire
A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential customer.
View ArticleGuilty plea after botnet tested with DDoS on ISP
The second man charged in 2006 computer attacks on The Planet and T35 Hosting has agreed to plead guilty.
View ArticleBotnet takedown may yield valuable data
Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam.
View ArticleGroup used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks
PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.
View ArticleZeus leaks give tools to researchers, attackers
The source code and a manual to the popular crimeware creation kit Zeus has been leaked, perhaps giving defenders additional tools to fight infections but also raising concerns that criminals may use...
View ArticleIn Pictures: 20 notorious worms, viruses and botnets
The earliest worms and viruses were created for geeky fun and did little harm - oh, how times have changed. Here are 20 worms, viruses and botnets that show the evolution of malware, from Creeper to...
View ArticleDDoS attacks increase in number, endanger small organisations
The number of DDoS attacks increased by 180 percent during the third quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2014.
View ArticleAre persistent bots permanently rooted in your smart home?
IoT botnets have been known for quite a while, but they gained household infamy after Mirai grabbed the headlines back in 2016.
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