Russian gang goes after network administrators
The New York Times reported that a gang of Russian criminals has been using network admin software as part of a nefarious plot to hijack thousands of PCs for passwords and other personal information....
View ArticleShadow botnet puts itself out to pasture
Two Dutch brothers are charged with operating the Shadow botnet, which infected upwards of 150,000 computers. After the botnet takedown was secured, The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit enlisted the help of...
View ArticleResearchers take over botnet, grab 56,000 passwords an hour
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, have published a report after taking over a massive botnet called Torpig aka Sinowal. The malware network was able to collect 56,000...
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Seculert Gets $5.35 Million Investment For Cloud-Based Botnet Detection Service
Seculert has raised a $5.35 million round of funding today led by Norwest Venture Partners for the Israeli company’s next generation advanced threat detection service. The company’s...
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Sound Of Silence: Researchers Nearly Shut Down Grum Spam Network
Notice anything weird about your email inbox? If you said there wasn’t as much spam lately that’s because researchers at FireEye and the venerable SpamHaus have essentially shut down the Grum botnet by...
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Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World's Biggest Spam Networks
As Spring cracked the Moscow frosts and March rains doused the streets, a computer in an innocuous server farm somewhere in the heart of the city winked to life. It was 2007, a year when many people...
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Hackers Point Large Botnet At WordPress Sites To Steal Admin Passwords And...
If you’re running a WordPress site, now would be a good time to ensure you are using very strong passwords. According to reports from HostGator and CloudFlare, there is currently a significant attack...
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Microsoft Offers A Cloud Approach To A Legacy Problem With New Anti-Botnet...
Microsoft is moving its botnet protection group to the cloud to provide near real-time information about known malware infections starting to surface. Microsoft is making the new program available to...
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Crooks Reanimate A Dead Botnet To Target High-Value Bank Accounts
In something that sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, hackers have reanimated an apparently dead botnet called Gameover Zeus even as malware researchers dismantled the previous version of the...
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How to prevent your IoT devices from being forced into botnet bondage
With more and more unguarded IoT devices becoming connected to the internet every day, malicious bot lords are having an easier time conscripting new recruits into their undyingly loyal armies of...
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Hackers release source code for a powerful DDoS app called Mirai
After doing heavy damage to KrebsOnSecurity and other web servers the creator of the Mirai botnet, a program designed to harness insecure IoT devices to run massive denial of service attacks, has...
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Dyn DNS DDoS likely the work of script kiddies, says Flashpoint
Business risk intelligence firm FlashPoint has put out a preliminary analysis of last week’s massive denial of service attack against Dyn DNS, and its conclusion is it was likely the work of amateur...
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Mirai botnet creator unmasked as DDOS protection developer tempted by the...
Mirai, the botnet that subverted thousands of poorly secured internet of things devices and set them to work on denial of service attacks, has been revealed to be the creation of a young developer who...
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Twitter has a big bot problem
Twitter bots – robots that interact with humans – have a long history. The Twitter API is fairly easy to use (I made a bot that plays Zork with a friend two years ago) and there is little protection...
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Researchers find that Twitter bots can be used for good
According to Emilio Ferrara, a USC Information Sciences Institute researcher, not all Twitter bots are born bad. He should know. Ferrara created a “large-scale experiment designed to analyze the...
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Researcher Emilio Ferrara talks about the rise of fake news and botnets
Emilio Ferrara has been thinking about botnets for over a decade. As the first social networks climbed out of the mire, he noticed that they were very easy to game. Now, it seems, all of those early...
View ArticleSeculert Gets $5.35 Million Investment For Cloud-Based Botnet Detection Service
Seculert has raised a $5.35 million round of funding today led by Norwest Venture Partners for the Israeli company’s next generation advanced threat detection service. The company’s...
View ArticleSound Of Silence: Researchers Nearly Shut Down Grum Spam Network
Notice anything weird about your email inbox? If you said there wasn’t as much spam lately that’s because researchers at FireEye and the venerable SpamHaus have essentially shut down the Grum botnet by...
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Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World’s Biggest Spam Networks
As Spring cracked the Moscow frosts and March rains doused the streets, a computer in an innocuous server farm somewhere in the heart of the city winked to life. It was 2007, a year when many people...
View ArticleHackers Point Large Botnet At WordPress Sites To Steal Admin Passwords And...
If you’re running a WordPress site, now would be a good time to ensure you are using very strong passwords and to make sure your username is not “admin.” According to reports from HostGator and...
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