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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 Jon Stewart, director of malware research for... [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 traffic from up to 30,000 PC and Apple Mac botnet... [06 Mar 2008]
Europe dishing out more spam than US
News The largest botnet sending spam is Storm, said Sjostedt. D is for DDoS Storm is a network of compromised computers with sophisticated attack and defence mechanisms, including "fast-flux" command and control servers, which frequently change location. [07 Feb 2008]
US man charged over Akamai DDoS attack
News He then used this botnet of hijacked computers to send a massive amount of traffic to the DNS servers of the Global Traffic Management division of Akamai, prosecutors alleged. A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial of... [25 Oct 2006]
Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle
News A botnet - a network of zombie PCs - can then be used to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a target organisation. Thomas said: "You don't have to be amazingly technically gifted to set up a botnet. [01 Mar 2006]
Teen gets five years for DDoS attacks
News He then organised them into a botnet, and targeted two companies that sold sports clothing online. In the UK, the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) does not include the specific crime of launching a DDoS attack. [18 Aug 2005]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
He then organised them into a botnet, and targeted two companies that sold sports clothing online. In the UK, the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) does not include the specific crime of launching a DDoS attack. [17 Aug 2005]
Symantec website under DDoS attack
News If the attached file is opened, the computer connects to a botnet — a network of thousands of hacker-controlled computers used for illegal activity - and begins to send data to the Symantec website in the hope of crashing it. [18 Jul 2005]
Stealth virus warning sounded again
When they receive an order for a botnet of a certain size, they set about trying to infect computers using infected email attachments or socially-engineered spam with links to malicious Web pages. To do a DDoS attack, 5,000 or 10,000 PCs is more... [25 May 2005]
14-year-old 'downed Microsoft homepage for four hours'
News The teenager released the RPCSDBOT Trojan in August 2003, creating a botnet which waged a DDoS attack on Microsoft, bringing down Redmond's website for around four hours. Due to the virus writer's juvenile status, no information about him or her... [14 Feb 2005]
Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Comment Often such a network, which can be leased out by the remote 'owners' as a 'botnet', is the engine room for spam campaigns and DDoS attacks. Some in the industry have even predicted that the huge army of compromised PCs in existence may one day be... [30 Nov 2004]
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