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 [...]
A well known hacker named “Dshocker” has pled guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to computer intrusion, interstate threats, and wire fraud, stemming from hacking, botnet and “swatting” activities. In accordance with federal law, the juvenile was not publicly named.
It’s now clear why Microsoft rushed out to release that emergency patch last month, it has the potential to be exploited by a fast spreading worm, reports CNET. Three malware packages already appear to be using it.
Will spam and botnets target cellphones? A new report from Georgia Tech Information Security Center claims that spam and botnet based attacks will be targeting mobile phones, reports PCWorld.
Thorsten Holz and Jose Nazario have published a paper describing what they observed from fast-flux botnets. The two discovered a lot of new and interesting tactics that bot herders are now using to avoid detection and shut down.
Two European men, Axel Gembe, 25, of Germany and Lee Graham Walker, 24, of Bleys Bolton, England, were indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to intentionally cause damage to the computers of two U.S.-based retail satellite companies by launching large-scale distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks that shut down [...]
A California based ISP has been effectively shutdown for allegedly hosting spammers and scammers, reports the Washington Post.
Shadowserver has a plan in place to identify bots that are left behind once malicious servers are defunct, reports Dark Reading.
The United States is now the number one source of distributed attacks and botnets, reports GCN.
Attackers are watching your webcam and listening to your microphone, reports TechRadar.com.
