bot attacks
RSS bot attacksBot attacks target those looking for romance
News The artificial intelligence of CyberLover's automated chats is good enough that victims have a tough time distinguishing the 'bot' from a real-life potential suitor, PC Tools said. Such attacks have been on the rise and are predicted to continue to... [10 Dec 2007]
Hackers learn to attack networks with IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap - a program that discovers devices on a network - with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of security for Whitehat UK... [12 Oct 2004]
The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets
White Paper These systems are infected with a bot that communicates with a bot controller and other bots to form what is commonly referred to as a zombie army or botnet. Global Internet threats are undergoing a profound transformation from attacks designed... [09 Jun 2006]
VeriSign warns of DoS evolution
News As a result, the DNS server, rather than the bot, makes the direct attack on the victim. While it is possible to stop a bot-delivered DoS attack by blocking the bot's IP address, blocking queries from DNS servers would prove more difficult, Silva... [17 Mar 2006]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News Incidents involving the malicious code, also known as "bot" code, reached 13,000 from April through June, according to a report from antivirus software maker McAfee. McAfee estimated that 63 per cent more machines were exploited by bot programs and... [12 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus
Comment It's a 'bot', or virus-like infection under the remote control of a distant computer, network or individual. The good news, if you can call it that, is that bot technology is in its infancy and the number of reported infections to date is in the... [20 May 2004]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News A security professional who participated in investigating the attack confirmed that the DDoS attack apparently came from an extremely large bot net. and other major websites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"- a large network of... [17 Jun 2004]
Virus warning: Deloder targets password idiocy
News They consist of a commonly used piece of network administration software called Virtual Network Computing (VNC), and an internet Relay Chat (IRC) "bot". The IRC bot, when activated, connects to a remote server and waits for commands, which could... [10 Mar 2003]
Vulnerability Exploits Break Records
White Paper According to security experts at Trend Micro, the bot attacks that occurred on the 16 August 2005 were not completely unexpected. In fact they have long noted the clsoing gap between the discovery of a new vulnerability and corresponding attacks. [13 Feb 2006]
Trend Micro 2004 Roundup: Virus Outbreak Incidence, Prevailing Malware Trends, Emerging Threats, Forecasts
White Paper It also saw an increase in bot programs, spam and phishing incidence, as well as an increase in spyware and adware generation, indicating that most attacks are gearing towards that quest to cash in on every popular Internet application and device... [28 Apr 2006]
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, September 2006
White Paper It also identifies the North American countries with the highest percentage of bot-infected computers as well as the continent's top region of origin for spam. This regional report highlights the top attacks, top countries of attack origin, and top... [12 Dec 2007]
Trends in Malware Evolution
White Paper With new worm and bot variants appearing almost daily, users have entered a vicious feedback loop, where bots spread worms and worms spread bots. In addition to discussing the attacks, the webcast also covers proven defensive strategies to help... [09 Jun 2006]
Lord: 'We need better cyber crime laws'
News The proposed changes would alter the law regarding launching denial of service attacks, the creation of tools that could be used for hacking, and bot attacks. He is seeking to amend Clause 40 of the Police and Justice Bill so malicious denial of... [21 Jun 2006]
Zombies are after your ID
News While many of the networks had been used to hit other bot nets with denial-of-service attacks, others had been used to gather sensitive identity information and install adware and spyware, a practice that is increasing, said Thorsten Holz, a... [15 Mar 2005]
MyDoom: The virus that changed the world
News The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised crime. For many, MyDoom marked the dawning of an age of financially motivated attacks. The main reason for the creation of MyDoom was to... [26 Jan 2005]
