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Mozi Botnet Takedown: Who Killed the IoT Zombie Botnet?
By Waqas The Mozi Botnet, one of the largest IoT botnets, has been taken down, but the responsible party remains unknown. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mozi Botnet Takedown: Who Killed the IoT Zombie Botnet?...
A week in security (August 26 – September 1)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we analysed the Android xHelper trojan, we wondered why the Nextdoor app would send out letters on behalf of their customers, reported about a study that explores the clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites, wondered how to get the board to invest in...
Mirai Botnet Itself is Flawed; Hacking Back IoTs Could Mitigate DDoS Attacks
The infamous botnet that was used in the recent massive distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against the popular DNS provider Dyn, causing vast internet outage last Friday, itself is flawed. Yes, Mirai malware, which has already enslaved millions of Internet of Things IoT devices across 164...
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Collaborate in Dorkbot Takedown
A coalition of law enforcement agencies worked together recently to disrupt Dorkbot, a botnet that’s managed to infect more than one million machines in 190 countries during the last year. Researchers with Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center announced the news via a post on the MMPC blog. Two...
Beebone Botnet Takedown Carried Out
A relatively small yet troublesome botnet has been shut down in a joint operation between U.S. and European law enforcement and a number of private security companies, including Kaspersky Lab. The takedown of Beebone was carried out on Wednesday by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security,...
GameOver Zeus Takedown Shows Good Early Returns
The effect of the takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet this week has been immediate and significant. Researchers who track the activity of the peer-to-peer botnet’s activity say that the volume of packets being sent out by infected machines has dropped to almost zero. On Friday, the FBI and...
Microsoft: 88 Percent of Citadel Botnets Down
Nearly two months after the company was part of an operation to disrupt a large number of Citadel botnets, Microsoft said that 88 percent of the botnets spawned by that malware have been taken down. Citadel is a Trojan designed specifically to steal financial information from a variety of sources...
Peer-to-Peer Botnet Takedowns a Challenge
The FBI, Justice Department and technology companies have had success shutting down botnets that rely on a centralized infrastructure and command and control servers to communicate with bots, steal data or send malicious commands. Peer-to-peer botnets, however, have proven more difficult to take...
Q&A: TJ Campana
REDMOND, Wash.–The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns and other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, and it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn’t going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime cente...
Bamital botnet servers seized by Microsoft and Symantec
Microsoft teamed up with Symantec to take down a nasty malware affecting thousands upon thousands of PCs. Bamital botnet hijacked people’s search experiences and redirected victims to potentially dangerous sites that could leave them vulnerable to other online threats and steal their personal...
Microsoft Carries out Nitol Botnet Takedown
A botnet known as Nitol, built on the backs of PCs and laptops loaded with malware somewhere in the supply chain, was taken down by Microsoft. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit was given permission this week by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to take over the 3322.org...
Active Zeus C&Cs Remain Following Microsoft Takedown
It appears that Microsoft’s recent Zeus takedown attempt left some bots behind. Days after the company announced it had sinkholed the troublesome botnet, researchers say that there are still some C&C domains active. FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab’s Atif Mushtaq is reporting that, despite a...
P2P Version of Zeus Botnet Appears
A new version of the Zeus malware has appeared, and this does not seem to be a minor upgrade, but a major custom version of the Trojan, which now sports a P2P capability that does away with the use of the domain-generation algorithm used in earlier versions and instead uses a hardcoded list of IP...
Botnet Takedown: Researcher Describes How Kelihos Fell
Dennis Fisher talks with Kaspersky Lab Researcher Tillmann Werner about the takedown of the Kelihos botnet, the network’s unique multi-tiered architecture, its custom protocol and the ethics and legality of pushing updates to disable bots on users’ machines. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown
Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botn...
Microsoft Offers $250k Reward for Rustock Information
Microsoft is now offering a $250,000 reward to help track down the people behind the notorious Rustock botnet. The company, which helped take down the botnet several months ago, said that it already has some good information on the crew behind the network and is now looking for information to bri...
Head of Russian Payment Processor ChronoPay Arrested
Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian payment-processing company, ChronoPay, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against one of his company’s main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile actions against...
Time to Focus on Results-Oriented Security
The security industry is full of pernicious problems with no easy solutions. Take spam, for example. The current best defense is filtering out the obvious spam messages. Yet, the countermeasure is not a solution: As anti-spam technology gets better, spammers merely churn out more spam and achieve...
Mega-D: March, 2010
The takedown of Mega-D, also known as Ozdok, was spearheaded by researchers at anti-botnet firm FireEye. The botnet, a byproduct of PC infections linked to the Mega-D Trojan, comprised tens of thousands of machines and was responsible for sending out a large portion of the spam on the Internet–at...
Reports: Rustock Born in the USA
U.S. hosting firms accounted for the bulk of the command and control centers for the Rustock botnet, with many firms claiming that they had no idea they were harboring an illegal criminal network on their infrastructure, according to a story in Krebsonsecurity.com. Threatpost reported last week...