attack botnet
RSS attack botnetBotnet finds a home on Twitter
News A Twitter account can be used as the command centre for harnessing a "botnet" of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec reported. But in this case, the Twittering botnet... [17 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News Such co-ordinated attacks require the efforts of tens of thousands or more of hijacked computers, which together form a botnet. A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and... [07 Aug 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News His office also has been tracking a botnet for a long time that has grown to include 100,000 or so compromised computers. Looking ahead five years, "I'm thinking the attack is going to be on cloud... [13 Jul 2009]
SMS flaw leaves iPhone vulnerable to attack
News An attacker could exploit a weakness in the way iPhones handle SMS messages to do things like use GPS to track the phone's location, turn on the microphone for eavesdropping, or take control of the device and add it to a... [03 Jul 2009]
Antisocial Networks: Turning a Social Network Into a Botnet
White Paper This paper experimentally shows that Social Network web sites have the ideal properties to become attack platforms. Antisocial Networks are distributed systems based on social networking Web sites that can be exploited... [01 Jul 2009]
Puppetnets: Misusing Web Browsers as a Distributed Attack Infrastructure
White Paper The paper shows that, depending mostly on the popularity of a malicious Web site and user browsing patterns, attackers are able to create powerful botnet-like infrastructures that can cause significant damage. [18 Nov 2008]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Paper It is easy to commission botnet attack services and hackers are quicker than ever to exploit new vulnerabilities. A botnet is an army of compromised machines, also known as "Zombies,"... [13 Jun 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack. Storm researcher... [07 May 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News A major UK gambling business has warned that all commercial websites are at risk from a new type of unstoppable and undetectable botnet denial of service attack. Attackers disguised the build up of... [06 Mar 2008]
Europe dishing out more spam than US
News The largest botnet sending spam is Storm, said Sjostedt. Storm is a network of compromised computers with sophisticated attack and defence mechanisms, including "fast-flux" command and control servers,... [07 Feb 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Heralding the beginning of the botnet phenomenon, Sobig was rapidly followed by a whole host of imitators such as MyDoom, Netsky and Bagel. The best example of this new-breed botnet Trojan is the... [19 Nov 2007]
Malicious code getting harder to spot
News He has spotted an encoded script function called "makemelaugh" that downloads a Trojan horse that captures bank information and a Paris Hilton Flash animation that installs a tool that makes a PC part of a botnet. [19 Apr 2007]
Worst week for viruses in a year?
News Ultimately, computers infected with this virus become unknowing "zombies" in a botnet that are used to send out spam and further the attacks. Ken Dunham, director of VeriSign's Rapid Response Team, said in a statement:... [16 Apr 2007]
Virus alert as Storm Worm rages on
News The compromised machine becomes a zombie in a network called a botnet. Most botnets are currently controlled through a central server, which - if found - can be taken down to destroy the botnet. However,... [23 Jan 2007]
Alert over Spybot worm
News It can be used by miscreants as part of a network of bots, or 'botnet', to relay spam and launch cyber attacks. The impact of the attack is minimal thus far. An updated variant of a malicious bot program... [30 Nov 2006]
