Researchers To Debut Botnet-Resistant Coding Techniques

As the botnet epidemic continues to rage, researchers are expanding the scope of their search for new methods to prevent users from becoming unwitting victims of these massive malicious networks. One pair of researchers this week will unveil a new technique they’ve developed to help Web sites...

Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers

Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and adapting to what the security community and researchers are doing, and it’s not unusual for the bad guys to adopt techniques used by their adversaries. The latest example of this is a malware gang that has deployed what amounts to a honeypot...

Indian hackers focus on botnet attacks

A new report released by computer giant Microsoft has revealed that the attack of 'botnets' on computers has increased in India. A botnet is a network of computers, controlled by one computer bot herder, which attacks another PC and makes it a part of its network. The report says that the Indian...

Report Alleges Bredolab-Spamit Connections

Law enforcement crackdowns in recent weeks have targeted two major contributors to worldwide spam: Spamit.com and the Bredolab botnet. Now a new report suggests that the two cases may be related. A report on Krebsonsecurity.com claims that the recent arrest of a 27 year-old man, identified as Geo...

Firm Scores $29M for Anti Botnet-As-A-Service

Endgame Systems is expanding from the government sector to commercial anti botnet services with a $29 million investment. The headlines in recent months have been filled with news about busts of major botnet operations – Bredolab, Pushdo, Waldec and Mariposa among them. But botnets are still a...

Bredolab Botnet Crackdown Could Have Wide Impact

A Dutch cyber crime unit has disrupted the operation of the Bredolab botnet and arrested an Armenian man believed to be the operator of the global malware distribution hub. In a statement on Monday, the Dutch Public Ministry said that the country’s High Tech Crime Team THTC, working in cooperatio...

U.S. Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country

The U.S. has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new report by Microsoft. The quarterly report on malicious software and Internet attacks shows that whil...

Spam Volume Is Way Down…But Why?

The volume of spam e-mail is down…way down. That’s the good news. But experts aren’t exactly sure what’s caused the precipitous drop in spam e-mail or how long it will last. As Brian Krebs reports on his blog, mail security firm M86 is seeing a 40% decline in spam volume since the beginning of...

Gaps In International Cyber Law Could Hamper Mariposa Case

ED: Gaps in international cyber law could hamper Mariposa case DEK: The take down of the Mariposa botnet is a cyber law enforcement success story – but gaps in international cyber law could make it difficult to prosecute those behind the botnet. A researcher involved in the analysis and dismantli...

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...