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InternetNews June 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture Your spam filters have ever so slightly less work to do today, thanks to several arrests of bot herders by the FBI.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.  |
InternetNews July 29, 2010 |
Authorities Nab Mariposa Botnet Kit Purveyor A 23-year-old man was arrested last week in Slovenia for allegedly creating and selling the Butterfly botnet kit used to spread the loathsome Mariposa botnet.  |
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.  |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.  |
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.  |
InternetNews March 4, 2010 |
Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers.  |
InternetNews September 9, 2009 |
IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.  |
InternetNews April 15, 2010 |
Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet.  |
InternetNews March 3, 2010 |
Mariposa Hackers Busted in Giant Botnet Scam Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation.  |
InternetNews October 27, 2005 Jim Wagner |
A Private, Public Approach to Internet Safety Tech companies and government agencies continue their efforts to make computing safe.  |
InternetNews August 14, 2009 |
Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest.  |
InternetNews March 23, 2010 |
FBI Underboss Outlines Anatomy of a Cyber Gang As cyber criminals grow ever more sophisticated and organized, law enforcement agencies have had to step up their game to keep pace. One of the top men at the FBI shares what the bureau is doing to combat cyber crime.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.  |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.  |
InternetNews July 15, 2009 |
Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think.  |
PC Magazine June 26, 2007 Jim Louderback |
Beware of Botnets Botnets are the successors to spyware... Helio's new Ocean phone... ISP speed tests reveal surprising results about DSL, fiber, and cable...  |
InternetNews March 5, 2010 |
FBI Director Seeks Industry Help on Cybersecurity In an address at the annual RSA show, FBI Director Robert Mueller outlines challenges the agency has in fighting cyber crime, seeks broader partnerships with private-sector firms.  |
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato |
Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.  |
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Ben Elgin |
Click Fraud's Next Frontier If you place an advertisement on Google or Yahoo!, and you're paying the search giants each time somebody clicks, it would be nice to know that the clicker is a human being who might actually purchase your product. Unfortunately, there are no such assurances.  |
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?  |
InternetNews April 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
A New Fight Against ID Theft Improved cyber security, increased law enforcement and public education top the recommendations of President Bush's Identity Theft Task Force plan issued today.  |
PC Magazine January 1, 2011 Larry Seltzer |
Computer Security: How It Looks for 2011 Here are what security vendors predict for 2011.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.  |
InternetNews October 21, 2009 |
Auto Industry a Spam Magnet: Study Panda Security survey finds that only one-tenth of one percent of all e-mail received by auto industry is legitimate.  |
InternetNews October 9, 2009 Larry Barrett |
Cyber Terrorism Demands New Tactics: Study RAND Corporation says fighting online threats to national security requires nontraditional tactics, immediate attention.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?  |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.  |
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses.  |
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel |
There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations.  |
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever.  |
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark |
Spam Summit Kicks Off Officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the British Office of Fair Trading hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.  |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.  |
InternetNews September 20, 2005 Roy Mark |
Malicious Code For Profit New trend finds shifts toward attacks seeking confidential information.  |
PC World August 2006 Andrew Brandt |
The 10 Biggest Security Risks You Don't Know About Hackers, scammers, and identity thieves are constantly coming up with new ways to attack your PC and your privacy. Here are the newest perils and how to foil them.  |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.  |
InternetNews July 29, 2009 |
Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.  |
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.  |
InternetNews October 8, 2009 |
FBI Holds Its Own Phish Phry Fed crackdown nets the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime scam.  |
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston |
Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs.  |
InternetNews February 2, 2011 |
Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.  |
Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner |
The New Red Menace Russian and eastern European hackers get all the glory these days, but their efforts to disrupt American financial services are a nuisance when compared to the nation-state threat that China's cyber army, and its rogue hackers, may pose.  |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
FBI Busts International Cybercrime Syndicate After a year-long investigation, the FBI and local law enforcement charges 37 hackers with using Zeus Trojan to steal more than $3 million from U.S. banks.  |
InternetNews September 17, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Have We Reached The End Of The Virus? Not quite. The old-fashioned virus infestation is fading as the biggest nuisance for computer users in favor of Trojans, Symantec's new malware study finds.  |
InternetNews November 12, 2008 Christopher Saunders |
Media Spotlight Scatters a Botnet Host ISPs spring into action after a mainstream publication fingers a U.S. Web hosting company for its role in the global spam and malware epidemic.  |
InternetNews October 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Symantec Adds Bot Hunting to Managed Services By using a traceback method, Symantec can look for hidden botnets within a corporate network.  |
InternetNews February 18, 2010 |
Kneber Botnet Pierces 2,500 Organizations So-called 'Kneber' botnet collects log-in credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and e-mail systems to break into accounts and steal corporate and government data at an astonishing pace.  |
InternetNews February 24, 2010 |
Cyber Attacks Hit 75% of Enterprises in 2009 Symantec's latest report has more unsettling news for IT security administrators.  |
InternetNews March 25, 2010 |
Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries.  |