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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 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 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 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 March 10, 2010 |
Mariposa Bot Shipped With Vodafone Smartphone Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone.  |
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 May 10, 2005 Tim Gray |
Teen Held For Allegedly Swiping Code Reports say stolen Cisco source code was used to infiltrate military computers.  |
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 December 16, 2010 |
760,000 Exposed in Ohio State Breach A massive data breach at Ohio State University has current and former students and staff scrambling to check their credit reports.  |
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 December 15, 2010 |
Hacktivism, Mobile Threats Will Surge in 2011 New report from Panda Security suggests there's plenty for everyone to worry about on the malware front in the coming year - especially if you own a smartphone.  |
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Eileen Travers |
The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back.  |
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active.  |
InternetNews April 20, 2010 |
Hackers Breached Google's Password Hub: Report New report cites source close to investigation claiming that hackers in China were able to compromise the password service that acts as gateway to Google's Web products and services.  |
InternetNews June 17, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Hacked Government and Corporate PCs for Sale A new report from Finjan says that the latest criminal markets are more sophisticated than ever before.  |
InternetNews April 23, 2010 |
SMBs Often a Weak Link in Cyber Security Lax data security and a lack of resources could be exposing small and midsized businesses - and their customers - to risk.  |
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 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.  |
Bank Technology News May 2006 Holly Sraeel |
If Financial Crime is Rising, Then Security is Job #1 Furthered along by a loosely knit network of criminals, cybercrime is being waged by hackers and botmasters for profit in ways that are often not easily tracked by financial institutions, law enforcement authorities and governments.  |
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.  |
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 December 22, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Malware Writers Get Bold, Rent Datacenters Not content with infecting individual PCs, the criminals who run botnets are now setting up shop in legitimate data centers. How?  |
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.  |
InternetNews May 5, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Researchers Seize Botnet, Peer Into Net's Dark Side For 10 days, a UCSB team monitored a botnet known for stealing credit card data and bank account credentials.  |
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 15, 2010 |
Microsoft Security Report: Botnets Enemy No. 1 In the latest installment of its Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft takes a look at the major online criminal blights plaguing enterprises and consumers, ranking botnets the worst of the worst.  |
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 June 8, 2010 |
Penn State Deals With Latest Data Breach Penn State University officials are warning more than 15,000 students that yet another preventable data breach has compromised their personal data.  |
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Botnet Affecting 2,500 Organizations Discovered "Kneber Botnet" gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers.  |
InternetNews October 29, 2009 |
Two-Headed Trojan Targets Online Banks New Trojan uses "two-pronged payload" to swipe log-in information, steal electronic funds.  |
InternetNews March 3, 2010 |
Microsoft Calls for Infected PC Quarantine At RSA, Microsoft's Scott Charney compares infected PCs' spamming to secondhand smoke - and suggests they also be banned from the Net.  |
InternetNews February 9, 2010 |
McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.  |
Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk |
Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments  |
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.  |
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 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 September 25, 2009 |
Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.  |
Investment Advisor June 2008 Irace & Mehta |
Security in a New Age How to protect your firm from 21st century online criminals  |
InternetNews June 22, 2010 |
Botnet Still King of Malware Underworld Latest report from Gartner finds that while more sophisticated malware and phishing scams will proliferate, botnets will still be the top challenge for security experts for the foreseeable future.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |