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Sophos Case Study: Everyone.net
White Paper After three years experience with Sophos securing its customers against viruses, spyware, and other malware, the company chose Sophos solutions to improve spam and phishing protection for users, and to safeguard its network from zombie attacks. [03 Jul 2008]
Beckham Trojan recruits zombie army
News This program turns a PC into a "zombie" computer that can be controlled remotely by hackers, and used to distribute spam or launch denial of service attacks. This is not the first time the Hackarmy virus writer has used pictures of celebrities to... [13 Oct 2004]
Bin Laden 'suicide' virus recruits zombie army
News But, once the file is opened, it installs a Trojan horse that effectively recruits the infected machine into the author's zombie army, which can then be used to distribute spam or launch DDoS attacks. [26 Jul 2004]
US hacker gets five years in the slammer
News Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, from California, rented out space on this zombie network of compromised machines for the sending of spam and malware, and also for launching denial of service attacks. Ancheta advertised his zombie network - or botnet... [09 May 2006]
Phishing victims learn an expensive lesson
News Last week, research from security company CipherTrust showed that most phishing emails are sent from one of five zombie armies of computers, otherwise known as botnets. According to antivirus company Sophos, the programme invites its victims to... [01 Nov 2004]
Back to school for spam victims
Last week, research from security company CipherTrust showed that most phishing emails are sent from one of five zombie armies of computers, otherwise known as botnets. According to antivirus company Sophos, the programme invites its victims to... [01 Nov 2004]
Virus alert as Storm Worm rages on
News The compromised machine becomes a zombie in a network called a botnet. Antivirus vendor Sophos called Storm Worm the "first big attack of 2007", with code being spammed out from hundreds of countries. [23 Jan 2007]
US spawning less spam, says Sophos
News Another revealing aspect of the study was the fact that more than 60 per cent of spam messages are generated by zombie computers, which are PCs that have been hijacked - sometimes without their owners knowing - through the use of viruses or other... [13 Oct 2005]
Canadians arrest teen over Randex worm
News The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have arrested a teenager on suspicion of creating a worm that could be used to create an army of zombie computers for delivering spam. This kind of malware causes real harm by allowing hackers to use the... [27 May 2004]
Virus warning: Bagle return exploits Outlook flaw
News These "zombie" machines have been updated and are now used to send copies of the new worm to any computer on which the victim uses a vulnerable copy of Outlook to view an infected email message. Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley... [18 Mar 2004]
US leads the dirty dozen spammers
Zombie computers -- PCs that have been compromised by hackers or virus writers -- are sending out over 40 percent of the world's spam, and many users who fall victim are unaware. Researchers at security company Sophos found after scanning its... [24 Dec 2004]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats
White Paper This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights how even organizations with reliable gateway and endpoint protection are vulnerable. [08 Apr 2008]
