New Report Finds U.S. Hosting Providers Infested With Malware, Botnets

The United States used to be the leading industrial nation in the world, producing the best cars, TVs, clothes and deep-fried Twinkies. Those days are gone, but the U.S. can still claim primacy in one important area: the most malware-infested, phishing-friendly hosting provider. The newest report...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

Javascript Character Manipulation Obfuscation (Fragus)

Exploit packs, such as Fragus, are toolkits used by cybercriminals to easily snare victims for their botnets. Solutions enabling security product bypass are often integrated within such tools. Although various security products provide coverage against many web vulnerabilities, such as ActiveX...

Stop Payments Stop Spam, Researchers Find

“Follow the money” – it was good advice for Woodward and Bernstein in their investigation of the Watergate scandal. It turns out to be good advice for those wishing to stamp out spam e-mail, also. That’s the conclusion of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the University...

Botnets: 2011 Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference

Botnets have become one of the most dangerous cyber threats affecting businesses today. Botnets criminals focus on the same things as most criminals: money and information. That is why these criminals are targeting payroll, human resources departments, C-level executives and senior strategists...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

Mitigating and Taking Down Botnets

Researchers and law enforcement officials have been working on taking down and crippling various botnets such as Rustock, Storm, Conficker and others for years. It’s a complex problem, and in this video Ryan Naraine talks with Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Tillmann Werner about the Conficker...

Security Threats Increasing in Sophistication and Precision

IBM’s X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk report showed that as vulnerability disclosures hit their highest level ever in 2010, security threats continued to increase in sophistication and precision. Like the term or not, 2010 may well have been the year of the APT, the term has become familiar to nearly...

Web-Based Spam Now a Global Problem

BOSTON–Since virtually the dawn of the commercial Web and the advent of widespread email use, spam has been a major problem and it has grown to a point that botnets are now spewing trillions of spam messages every month. But, email spam is just one piece of a much larger ecosystem that now is...

The Pharmaceutical Spam Machine

In this Lab Matters webcast, Kaspersky Lab senior spam analyst Maria Namestnikova looks closely at the pharmaceutical spam operations and discusses how spammers are using affiliate programs and rebuilt botnets to recover from last year’s crackdown...

Alex Lanstein on the Rustock Botnet Takedown

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Lanstein of FireEye about this week’s takedown of the Rustock botnet, the important legal precedent it helped set with Microsoft’s lawsuit and the mechanics behind the operation and dismantling of large-scale botnets. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to t...

Europe's Cybersecurity Agency Gears Up for War on Botnets !

The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA, Europe's Cyber security agency, issued a report focused on botnets this week titled, "Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence." The report discusses the reliability of botnet size estimates and provides recommendations...

Europe prepares for war with botnets !

EU cyber security agency ENISA has warned that ISPs, end users and governments all have a role to play in stopping the global menace of botnet-related cyber crime. Botnets, such as the one that uses the infamous Zeus malware to infect machines, are growing in scope and scale, and ENISA has releas...

Four Face Jail Time for Ghost Market Crime Forum

Two U.K. teens and twenty-somethings received a collective prison sentence of fifteen years after administering the Ghost Market criminal forum, a meeting place and a classroom where nefarious individuals found anything from banking malware to methamphetamine recipes. Gary Paul Kelly, an unemploy...

Windows Loses Hacker Star Status In Next Decade

The next decade will see Microsoft lose its grip as the most-used and most attacked platform, as a new generation of hackers and cybercriminals diversify, launching attacks on a growing population of mobile devices and computers that run operating systems other than Windows, according to Kaspersk...

Spam Botnets Are Declining, But Likely Not For Long

The size and volume of spam botnets are down over the last year, and much of this can be attributed to the effectiveness of IP-based blacklists. However, this defense method is no panacea as scammers have found new methods like reputation hijacking to circumvent these roadblocks, and bots continu...

DHS Investing $40 Million for Cybersecurity Research !

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and assay to abutment the Comprehensive Civic Cyber Initiative CNCI are amid areas of cybersecurity advance the Department of Homeland Aegis DHS will accomplish in budgetary year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Aegis Advanced Assay Projects Bure...

Darkshell Botnets Targeting Chinese Manufacturers With DDoS Attacks

Researchers are tracking a new bot that originated in China and is being used by various associated botnets that are hammering away with DDoS attacks aimed at several dozen targets around the world, including a number of telecom companies and specialized manufacturers. The piece of malware behind...

Zeus/SpyEye Merger Promises More Sophisticated Bots

The recent merger of the Zeus and SpyEye botnets has created a mega-botnet that promises to increase the effectiveness, complexity, and prevalence of malware across the Web, according to a blog post by Francois Paget of McAfee Labs. The SpyEye/ZS Toolkit v1.4.1, the first evidence of a long-rumor...