TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers Millions of PCs around the world infected by the dangerous TDSS 'super-malware' rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet. The report is presented by researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab. TDSS also known as 'TDL' and sometimes ...

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...

Malware, Exploit Kit Writers Merging Their Talents

MALAGA, SPAIN–Botnets have been around for more than 15 years now, and for much of that time they’ve been the favored platform for attackers looking to compromise users on a large scale and monetize those infected machines. But now, as researchers and authorities begin to have more success with...

FBI Begins Purging Coreflood Infected PCs

The FBI has issued some 19,000 uninstall commands to the computers of 24 individuals infected by the Coreflood botnet, effectively purging their machines of that malware, and leaving behind no unintended consequences thus far according to a report from Brian Krebs. This move was made possible by...

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...

Rustock Author May Be Former Google Hopeful

As Microsoft’s crusade against the Rustock botnet continues, a new article from Brian Krebs claims the formerly prolific botnet’s author may be a self-described mathematician and software engineer who once sought employment from Google. According to Krebs, who cites court documents filed by the...

Phishing, Social Networking Attacks on the Rise

The last year or so has seen a series of high-profile targeted attacks against corporate and government networks, including the Aurora attack on Google and others, the intrusion at RSA and the recent attack on the Sony PlayStation Network. But a new report from Microsoft shows that attackers...

Fingerprinting the author of the ZeuS Botnet !

The source code of the ZeuS Botnet is now available for Download. Derek Jones the author this article imagine there are a few organizations who would like to talk to the authors of this code. All developers have coding habits, that is they usually have a particular way of writing each coding...

Finally Source code of ZeuS Botnet Version: 2.0.8.9 available for Download !

Finally Source code of ZeuS Botnet Version: 2.0.8.9 available for Download ! Download Link : https://www.multiupload.com/P8QUNF4YJN Rar password : zeus Read More : Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked ! 'The Hacker News' Magazine - Social Engineering Edition - Issue 02 - May,2011 Released !...

Coreflood Takedown Raises Questions About Offensive Actions Against Botnets

For just about as long as there have been botnets, there’s been an ongoing discussion in the security and law-enforcement communities about the legality and ethics of taking proactive steps to disrupt the botnets’ operations and even to remove the bots from infected machines. Until very recently,...

FBI vs Coreflood botnet

FBI vs Coreflood botnet The FBI's unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet—comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines—appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earli...

FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...

DOJ Shuts Down Botnet, Disables Infected Systems

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Wednesday that they had taken actions to disable an international botnet of more than two million infected computers that was stealing corporate data including user names, passwords and financial information. Thirteen unnamed “John Doe” defendent...

Mariposa: December, 2009

The takedown of the Mariposa botnet is an example of both the possibilities and complications facing law enforcement around the world as they work to stamp out botnets. A cyberlaw enforcement success story, the take down of Mariposa by Spanish authorities in December, 2009, followed months of wor...

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...

Waledac: March, 2010

Though not nearly as large or important a botnet, Waledac – which counted fewer than 100,000 infected hosts at its height – was notable for the tactics that researchers used to dismantle the botnet. Microsoft worked with a group of researchers at the University of Mannheim, the University of Vien...

Bredolab: October, 2010

At its height, the Bredolab botnet numbered more than three million hosts and was responsible for 30 million infections and 3.6 billion spam e-mails daily.The global botnet was brought down by the Dutch cyber crime unit, which seized the command and control infrastructure used by the botnet and,...

Pushdo/Cutwail: August, 2010

One of the world’s most prolific botnets and a leading source of spam, denial of service attacks and malware, Pushdo was brought down by researchers at the security firm Last Line of Defense, who worked with hosting providers to seize 30 command-and-control servers involved in the botnet...

Rustock: March, 2011

By the time U.S. Marshals, in the company of Microsoft Corp. attorneys, busted into the data centers of dozens of U.S. hosting firms to shut down the Rustock botnet in March, 2011, it was the main source of global spam. The takedown was notable for the success Microsoft had in using the courts to...

Report: Rustock Operators or Operator

A Krebsonsecurity piece looks into the unknown party behind the Rustock botnet, and whether it may have been operated by just one person. By interviewing investigators involved in the takedown, a joint operation carried out by Microsoft, FireEye, and various law enforcement agencies, Krebs...