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Your Botnet Is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover
White Paper This paper reports on efforts to take control of the Torpig botnet and study its operations for a period of ten days. While botnets have been "Hijacked" and studied previously, the Torpig botnet exhibits... [02 Oct 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. The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs... [13 Jul 2009]
Infiltrating WALEDAC Botnet's Covert Operations: Effective Social Engineering, Encrypted HTTP2P Communications, and Fast-Fluxing Network
White Paper This vast umbrella of compromised computers whose owners are often unaware of the misuse of their system resources for malicious distributed-computing activities, thus continuing to expand the botnet's... [01 Jul 2009]
Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter
White Paper This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to today's networks, and how the Cisco Botnet Traffic Filter enables Cisco ASA appliances to fight botnets and to handle their dynamic nature. [01 Jul 2009]
Spam, Phishing, and the Looming Challenge of Big Botnets
White Paper What could a spammer or phisher do with a botnet of a thousand machines? Further, the basic cryptographic assumptions underlying the implementation of SSL certificates and DomainKeys/DKIM need re-examination in light of... [01 Jul 2009]
Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics
White Paper Towards this goal, it developed a spam signature generation framework called AutoRE to detect botnet-based spam emails and botnet membership. Moreover, it outputs high quality regular expression... [01 Jul 2009]
Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware, and Other Security Threats
White Paper Other criminals use Web sites to spread malware, which can steal personal data or take over users' computers into a botnet, which can be used to send spam or mount cyber-attacks against Web sites and other Internet... [20 Jun 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]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Rivner laid the pricing bare, revealing how fraudsters offered botnet networks as a subscription service with patching and upgrades thrown in. Cloud... [31 Oct 2008]
Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
News Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet As ever, security scares abounded with revelations that cash machines could be easily hacked and a warning from a gambling website about an "unstoppable... [27 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet Blue Gene/L is the most powerful supercomputer in existence but the criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs with a combined computing power greater than that of... [20 Nov 2007]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News Criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. The Storm Worm... [12 Sep 2007]
Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself
Comment The Botnet Task Force, which held its fourth meeting in Lyon, France, this month is a good example of the joint approach. In a paper delivered in March last year to the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and... [24 Apr 2006]
Lycos email scam hides nasty Trojan
News According to Paul Wood, chief information analyst at MessageLabs, such botnet capacity can be rented out for around $10 per hour and "provides enough combined computing power and bandwidth to spam almost... [08 Dec 2004]
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. Seen originally as a way for academic research to garner vast power, grid... [30 Nov 2004]
