LinkedIn Members Targeted by Botnet Malware

Members of LinkedIn who clicked on fake connection requests sent users to a Website that displayed “PLEASE WAITING…4 SECONDS” before redirecting them to Google. During those 4 seconds, the Website downloaded Zeus data-theft malware onto their PCs. Read the full article. eWEEK...

Zeus Botnet Raids Result in 19 UK Arrests

UK police have arrested 19 cybercrime suspects who allegedly used the ZeuS crimeware toolkit to capture online banking credentials before looting victims’ bank accounts. Read the full article. The Register...

Researcher Finds Infiltration Flaw in Zeus Botnet

A security researcher has discovered a potentially crippling vulnerability in one of the most widely used botnet toolkits, a finding that makes it easy for blackhats and whitehats alike to take control of huge networks of infected PCs. Read the full article. The Register...

My Opera Found To Host Malware

HED: MyOpera found to host malware BAK: The My Opera free Web hosting service is hosting malicious code, just the latest prominent hosting service to be gamed by malware distributors. Less than a month after Google’s Code hosting service was found to be hosting and serving malicious executables, ...

Researchers Find Malware on My Opera Page

Researchers have discovered that a page on the My Opera community Web site is hosting malware related to an IRC botnet. The discovery comes just a couple of weeks after malicious code also was found on Google Code servers. On Thursday, a researcher perusing a page on the My Opera community site...

Twitter Botnet Discovered in Mexico

Security researchers have discovered another botnet that uses Twitter as a command and control channel. Read the full article. The Register...

Botnet-For-Hire Model Resurfaces in New IMDDOS Botnet

Researchers have identified a new botnet based in China that was openly selling DDoS-for-hire services and had managed to plant roots inside a number of major U.S. ISPs. The botnet, known as IMDDOS, is mostly contained right now and the researchers are working with authorities to locate its...

MS Wins Court Order Against Botnet Waledac

A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 internet addresses used to control “Waledac,” a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down. Read the full article. The Register...

Some Pushdo Variants Resuming Spam Operations

A few days after the majority of the command-and-control servers belonging to one of the variants of the Pushdo botnet were taken offline, some researchers say that there are indications that portions of the botnet are back to their old tricks, downloading new spam templates for a resumption of...

Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet

Researchers have made a huge dent in a major variant of the Pushdo botnet, virtually crippling the network by working with hosting providers to take down about two thirds of the command-and-control servers involved in the botnet. Pushdo for years has been one of the major producers of spam and...

Analyzing the Latest UK Banking Botnet

More details have emerged of how security researchers tracked down a Zeus-based botnet that raided more than $1m from 3,000 compromised UK online banking accounts. Read the full article. The Register...

100K PC-Strong Zeus Botnet Disrupted

Security researchers have uncovered the command and control network of a Zeus 2 botnet sub-system targeted at UK surfers that controlled an estimated 100,000 computers. Read the full article. The Register...

Researchers Discover Mini Botnet Mumba

According to a newly published report, upon obtaining access to a mini ZeuS botnet dubbed Mumba, researchers at AVG found 60GB of stolen data such as, accounting details for social networking sites, banking accounts, credit card numbers and intercepted emails. Read the full article. ZDNet...

Three Mariposa Botnet Suspects Arrested

Slovenian police will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss the arrest of three men in connection the massive Mariposa botnet that was disabled late last year. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Zeus Botnet Using Windows LNK Flaw

Isolated strains of mainstream malware that took advantage of how the zero-day Windows flaw first exploited by the sophisticated Stuxnet worm began appearing late last week. The same approach has since been applied by the dodgy sorts behind Zeus, a family of sophisticated toolkits frequently used...

Spammers Moving to Disposable Domains

Spammers and the botnet operators they’re allied with are continuing to adapt their techniques to evade security technologies, and now are using what amount to disposable domains for their activities. A new report shows that the spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one ...

Symbian Mobile Botnet Affecting 100K Handsets

Mobile malware that affects Symbian Series 60 handsets is being used to create a botnet. Read the full article. The Register...

Kraken-Based Botnet Makes A Comeback

Since April, a son-of-Kraken botnet has infected an estimated 318,058 machines – about half as big as the original Kraken was at its height in the middle of 2008, according to Paul Royal, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Read the full article. The Register...

SSH Brute Force Attacks Resurface

Security experts are warning about a fresh round of attacks against SSH implementations. The attacks are brute-force attempts to authenticate to remote SSH servers, a tactic that has been used quite often in the past in distributed attacks. The attacks, which the handlers at the SANS Internet Sto...

Banking Botnet in Eastern Europe Steals, Disrupts

Banks in Russia and Ukraine are under continued siege by criminal gangs wielding a sophisticated, next-generation exploitation kit that hacks the financial institutions’ authentication system and then hits it with a denial-of-service attack. Read the full article. The Register...