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Stopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats
White Paper Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and enable other serious crimes. This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights... [08 Apr 2008]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats
White Paper Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and enable other serious crimes. This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights... [08 Apr 2008]
Windows has fewest security holes
News The latest Symantec threat report, which covers the six-month period from 1 July to 31 December 2006, also reveals the number of 'zombie' PCs hijacked by hackers and used to launch denial of service attacks or send out spam has risen by almost 30... [23 Mar 2007]
US man charged over Akamai DDoS attack
News He then used this botnet of hijacked computers to send a massive amount of traffic to the DNS servers of the Global Traffic Management division of Akamai, prosecutors alleged. A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial of... [25 Oct 2006]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal internet spam operations, including two that hijacked computers to send sexually explicit spam. It also said Kinion paid others to send unsolicited email messages and sent spam via so... [15 Sep 2006]
Spammers now own email's dirty reputation
News A lot of spam is sent through hijacked computers, or so-called zombies. Nearly all of the internet-connected computers that send email are controlled by spammers, according to companies that track email reputations. [26 Jul 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment He sees botnets as a major problem that cannot be easily fixed because the hijacked machines are mostly home PCs connected to an ADSL line. Bot networks - armies of these hijacked computers - have become the predominant feature of the internet... [12 Apr 2006]
Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle
News One of the biggest security threats today are the armies of 'zombie' PCs that have been hijacked by criminals using backdoor Trojans to gain remote control of a user's computer. A botnet - a network of zombie PCs - can then be used to send spam or... [01 Mar 2006]
Spyware: Best Practices For Fighting An Emerging Security Threat - A Forrester Webcast brought to you by Sophos
White Paper Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and are used in other serious crimes. This on-demand Forrester Webcast explains how businesses are under constant attack from this fast-moving threat... [28 Nov 2005]
Zombie armies are shrinking, says security guru
News Often, hijacked bots have been infected with software that will connect to an Internet Relay Chat and await instructions from the malicious attacker. Botnets are used to send out email messages for spam and phishing attacks. [17 Nov 2005]
Are you a spammer? Why stopping zombies dead in their tracks is essential
White Paper Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and are used in other serious crimes. This paper explains how businesses are under constant attack from this fast-moving threat, and how zombies can... [15 Nov 2005]
FBI shuts down 'number one spammer'
News However, according to Spamhaus, Ralsky has continued his unsolicited bulk email pursuits and now spams using hijacked proxies and virus infected PCs. Ralsky currently appears as the world's most prolific spammer on the Spamhaus Project's Rokso... [17 Oct 2005]
Microsoft issues alert on two "critical" Windows flaws
News The Trojan horses would let the miscreants remotely control the hijacked PCs and make it part of a network of such computers known as a botnet, an increasing cyber threat. The vulnerability has been publicly known since late last month, and... [13 Jul 2005]
MCI accused of hosting spam tools
News This Send Safe feature instructs its hijacked proxies to send the spam out via the upstream ISP's main mail server (instead of the proxy sending the spam out from the infected machine itself). The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has threatened... [14 Feb 2005]
Annoyed sports fan arrested for fake team spam
News Allan E Carlson, a passionate follower of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, had hacked into the PCs of unsuspecting computer users and spoofed the email addresses of local sportswriters and team officials to send emails slamming the... [07 Jan 2005]
