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The Malware Cash Factory
Over on our sister site Viruslist.com, researchers Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov have published an article that studies a single spam e-mail and illustrates the methods used by cyber criminals to create botnets and conduct mass spam mailings. The methods and techniques used are clearly...
Malware Economy is Thriving
TORONTO — The legitimate economy may be in rough shape right now, but the same cannot be said for the underground economy. Malware authors and botmasters are thriving, experts say, with some online criminals charging as much as $3,500 for their attack toolkits. But don’t be intimidated by the hig...
Beware the Tiny, Unknown Botnet
DarkReading’s Kelly Jackson Higgins is reporting on a new study that shows bot infections in the rise in the enterprise, most coming from tiny, unknown botnets built for targeting victim organizations. The three-month study of more than 600 different botnets found having infiltrated enterprise...
Google Exec Calls For ISPs to Get Tough on Botnets
GENEVA — Head of Google’s anti-malvertising team Eric Davis wants Internet Service Providers ISPs to look beyond profits and take a more proactive approach to dealing with malware-infested computers on their networks. During a keynote presentation at the Virus Bulletin conference here, Davis said...
Google: Cooperation Needed to Combat Malicious Ads
GENEVA — A more comprehensive and serious level of cooperation among industry leaders is needed to help stop the scourge of malicious Web ads and botnets that result from the infected PCs, a top Google executive said Wednesday. Eric Davis, the head of anti-malvertising at Google, speaking to a...
The Economics of Botnets
From Viruslist.com Yury Namestnikov In the past ten years, botnets have evolved from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C command and control center into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of computers with decentralized control. Why are these enormous...
What Was the Effect of Shutting Down McColo?
From Light Blue Touchpaper Richard Clayton On 11 November 2008 McColo, a Californian server hosting company, was disconnected from the Internet. This took the controllers for 6 major botnets offline. It has been widely reported that email spam volumes were markedly reduced for some time thereafte...
DDoS Attacks Ongoing Against FTC, Other Sites
It looks like the distributed denial-of-service attack, once the favorite tactic of script kiddies and professional hackers alike, is coming back into favor. Attackers have been conducting an ongoing DDoS attack against the Federal Trade Commission’s main site, as well as some other government...
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc10
Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use. It is extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules, has support for the big five IRC networks and is able to form botnets, share partylines and userfiles between bots...
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc9
Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use. It is extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules, has support for the big five IRC networks and is able to form botnets, share partylines and userfiles between bots...
How to defend against botnet attacks
Botnets have become one of the more insidious threats on the Internet in the last few years. Large-scale botnets such as the Storm, Asprox and Nugache networks have caused tremendous problems by serving as platforms for spamming operations, DDoS attacks and other mischief. In this podcast from...
Radical steps are needed to fix Internet security
The Internet as we know it today was designed to be a place where people could go about their business, whatever it happened to be, anonymously and without interference from other users. This model worked reasonably well for a long time, but it’s become painfully clear in recent months that some...
Attack of the mini-botnets
From DarkReading.com Kelly Jackson Higgins Big-name botnets like Kraken/Bobax, Srizbi, Rustock, the former Storm — and even the possible botnet-in-waiting, Conficker — have gained plenty of notoriety, but it’s the smaller and less conspicuous ones you can’t see that are doing the most damage...
BBC defends, explains botnet purchase
After taking some heat for its decision to buy a botnet and use it to send spam and launch a denial-of-service attack against a site owned by Prevx, the BBC has released an editor’s note to explain and defend the broadcast experiment. Here’s the gist of the Beeb’s defense, via BBC Click executive...
Jose Nazario on botnets and DDoS defense
Few people in the world know more about the internal workings of botnets, DDoS attacks and defense than Jose Nazario, a senior security researcher at Arbor Networks. Don’t miss his thoughts on why DDoS attacks are more prevalent in some regions than others and how to react if you’re attacked...
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: eggdrop-1.6.18-12.fc7
Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use. It is extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules, has support for the big five IRC networks and is able to form botnets, share partylines and userfiles between bots...
