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whitepaper This paper examines the existence of and interactions within the botnet ecosystem that enables phishing and its ensuing damage. It also provides information on how businesses and consumers can protect themselves against these attacks.
[29 Nov 2006]
whitepaper This white paper examines the existence of and interactions within the botnet ecosystem that enables phishing - a fraudulent type of spam - and the ensuing damage. Off late malicious attacks involving tens of thousands of virus-infected PCs...
[28 Mar 2008]
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]
News Poland and Spain have recently become home to two of the world's most infected networks, along with countries such as Italy and Turkey - which are seeing more botnet activity. He said: "Finland had the worst botnet record in Europe in 2005 and...
[26 Jul 2006]
News The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.
[17 Oct 2007]
News New Zealand police have cracked down on an alleged botnet ringleader in New Zealand, who the FBI claims had illegal control over one million computers. Since Operation Bot Roast was announced last June, eight individuals have been indicted, pled...
[03 Dec 2007]
Comment Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers. How home users are fuelling the botnet networks The cyber division is one of the faster growing operational departments...
[15 Apr 2008]
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 botnet has been estimated to control between one...
[12 Sep 2007]
whitepaper A botnet, short for robot network, is an aggregation of computers compromised by bots that are connected to a central "controller. These botnet controllers are often controlled from chat rooms. Botnet controllers can be linked together to form even...
[01 Aug 2007]
whitepaper IntruShield is critical to pinpointing and disrupting botnet controlers and interrupts several phases of botnet infection in the ongoing war against botnets. McAfee IntruShield IPS protects telcos, Internet service providers (ISPs), enterprises...
[07 Jan 2008]
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]
News The zombie army can be controlled remotely with the botnet creators usually trying to build the largest possible botnet of compromised computers to rent out to gangs for as little as $100 for a couple of hours.
[28 Sep 2007]
News Steve Linford, CEO of Spamhaus, said: "Each group of spammers has a botnet. A botnet is a collection of - usually - Windows-based PCs that have been stealthily taken over by malware. Linford said that once blacklisted, the owner sells the botnet to...
[23 Sep 2004]
News The attacks could mark the emergence of a new threat from the Storm botnet, according to a report from security company RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC). Attackers used the Storm botnet as a fast flux-network, frequently rotating the IP...
[15 Feb 2008]
News Over an eight-hour period yesterday, the worm sent malicious emails across the globe to hundreds of thousands of people, who unknowingly were part of a botnet, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure.
[19 Jan 2007]
News A botnet is comprised of thousands of computers that have been surreptitiously transformed into zombie PCs without their owners' knowledge. He added: "When a larger botnet is spreading a virus, it lights up the switchboard of [antivirus] vendors...
[17 Nov 2005]
whitepaper 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. This paper outlines the origins and structure of bots and botnets and use data from the...
[09 Jun 2006]
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 botnet".
[27 Mar 2008]
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]
News Sunner said around the turn of the year security experts were watching one botnet, called Spam Thru, which not only had its own antivirus protection to clear other botnets off 'its patch' but had the potential to be 10 times more productive than...
[26 Jan 2007]
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