FBI and British Law Enforcement Seeking Botnet Builders
British Law enforcement and the FBI are actively looking for the individuals that created the largest botnet, reports World Watch from CBS News.
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Massive Botnet found on almost 2 million PCs
A large botnet from the Ukraine that has infected nearly 2 million computers is stunning security researchers, reports DarkReading.
Apr 26, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Juvenile Botner sentenced to 11 months in prison
A male juvenile, who has been widely known in the hacker underground by his online moniker, “DSHOCKER,” was sentenced today in federal court to 11 months in prison, to be served in a juvenile detention facility, for computer intrusion, interstate threats, and wire fraud, stemming from hacking, botnet, and “swatting” activities. In accordance with federal [...]
Apr 24, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Conficker Worm Targeting Microsoft Windows Systems
US-CERT is reporting that they’re aware of widespread infection of the Conficker Worm. The worm infects computers running Microsoft Windows via a thumb drive, a network share, or directly across the network if the host is not patched with update MS08-067.
Mar 30, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Botneter sentenced to 4 years in prison
In the first US prosecution of its kind, John Schiefer, 27, of Los Angeles, also known as “acidstorm,” was sentenced last week to 48 months in federal prison for using “botnets” to steal the identities of victims throughout the country by extracting information from their personal computers and wiretapping their communications, according the US Department [...]
Mar 11, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Microsoft offering $250,000 reward for Conficker creator
The windows worm commonly known as Conficker is creating havoc by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE). When the vulnerability is successfully exploited, it may allow remote code execution when file sharing is enabled. Depending on the specific variant, it may also spread via removable drives and by exploiting weak passwords. It [...]
Feb 16, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Virus Bulletin to test and certify anti-spam products
Virus Bulletin has built a reputation for testing and certifying anti-malware products for more than ten years and they’re about to get into checking the performance claims made by anti-spam product vendors.
Jan 08, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Windows worm creating massive botnet
Last month Microsoft released a critical patch out of schedule to prevent massive exploitation however it seems as many systems are still unpatched. A worm exploiting this critical bug is being used by the Conficker.a or Downad.a worm, reports ComputerWorld.
Dec 15, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
Unpatched IE7 Flaw Exploited
A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability which is an unpatched exploit in Microsoft Internet Explorer is being targeted by malware authors and script kiddies, reports Trend Micro.
Dec 11, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
Social Network Spam Spreading Malware via Spoofed YouTube Links
There has been an uptick in public reports of malware that is spreading through spam messages that appear to come from Social Networking web sites such as MySpace.com, Facebook.com and Classmates.com. The emails reportedly describe a YouTube video and a link is provided. The link actually leads to a malicious spoof web site which, to [...]
Dec 09, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
