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RSS zombieZombie armies are shrinking, says security guru
News A botnet is comprised of thousands of computers that have been surreptitiously transformed into zombie PCs without their owners' knowledge. The move to pint-size botnets helps malicious attackers have more success in delaying detection of their... [17 Nov 2005]
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]
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]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News The move is an attempt to crack down on the number of zombie PCs at large in the world as such compromised machines - known en masse as botnets - are the major source of rogue and malicious email and the US is the worst affected country. [15 Jun 2007]
How to Revive a Zombie Content Management System
White Paper If this occurs, the CMS can enter a state of living death: a ‘zombie’ CMS. Even if a content management system (CMS) project succeeds, there is the very real danger that over time, it gradually slides into disrepair. [24 Feb 2004]
UK man arrested over zombie DDoS attacks
News A UK man is due in court today over claims he used a network of zombies to commit distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The 27-year-old, from Elgin in north east Scotland, was arrested on Friday after a joint investigation by the Scottish... [17 Jan 2005]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo! and other major websites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"- a large network of zombified home PCs - Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies said. [17 Jun 2004]
Zombie armies battering Windows
News Malicious remote control software continues to be one of the biggest threats to Windows PCs, according to a new Microsoft security report. More than 43,000 new variants of such insidious software were found in the first half of 2006, making them... [25 Oct 2006]
Rent-a-zombie ringleader pleads guilty
News A US man has pleaded guilty to leasing out networks of compromised computers to criminals so they can carry out denial of service and spam attacks. Twenty-year old Californian Jeanson James Ancheta faces up to six years in prison for felony charges... [24 Jan 2006]
Virus warning: Bite the Bagle and become a zombie
News A new version of the Bagle virus is attempting to turn PCs into zombies for use in cyber attack networks. The variant surfaced over the weekend and was spammed to tens of thousands of internet users, according to Ero Carrera, a researcher at F-Secure. [29 Jun 2005]
Zombies: The Digital Undead
White Paper A zombie is a computer that has been compromised by attackers, typically for the purpose of sending spam e-mail and viruses to literally millions of recipients. Today's hackers (the "zombie masters") have become so sophisticated that they have... [13 Mar 2007]
Zombies: The Digital Undead
White Paper A zombie is a computer that has been compromised by attackers, typically for the purpose of sending spam e-mail and viruses to literally millions of recipients. Today's hackers (the "zombie masters") have become so sophisticated that they have... [10 Apr 2008]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News Personal computers that play unwitting host to "zombie" code are proliferating at a startling pace, according to a new report. Computer security experts have identified zombie networks, or networks of systems with bot software installed, as a... [12 Jul 2005]
Europe home to majority of zombies
News Europe was home to more hacker-controlled (zombie) computers in May than anywhere else in the world, according to vendor research. Zombie computers are typically infected with viruses and used to send spam and perform denial of service attacks. [31 May 2005]
Zombies: Oz takes the fight to ISPs
News These so-called zombie computers have been compromised by hackers, a computer virus, or a Trojan horse, and perform malicious tasks of one sort or another, under the direction of the hacker. Many owners of zombie computers are unaware that their... [08 Nov 2005]
