Inside the URLZone Trojan Network

Security researchers tracking the URL Zone malware/botnet have stumbled upon a new tactic being used by cyber-criminals to hide information on the money mules being used to transfer stolen funds from compromised online bank accounts. URLZone, which targets computer users in Western Europe, is a...

Botnet Hiding Commands as JPEG Images

Security researchers have stumbled on a new botnet that uses an interesting technique to mask its nefarious intentions. The Monkif/DIKhora botnet, which is pushing out Trojan downloaders to infected machines, is encoding the instructions to appear as if the command-and-control server is returning...

From Gimmiv to Conficker: MS08-067 Under The Microscope

GENEVA — The critical MS08-067 vulnerability used by the Conficker worm to build a powerful botnet continues to be a lucrative security hole for cybercriminals. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference here, a trio of Microsoft researchers dissected the malware attacks linked t...

Koobface, Twitter Attacks Growing More Sophisticated

GENEVA — The attacks and scams that have been affecting users of Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking sites are continuing to evolve and improve, as the attackers learn more about their victims and refine their tactics, experts say. The poster child for these attacks has been the...

A Peek at the 'Bahama' Click Fraud Botnet

A new botnet, codenamed the ‘Bahama’ botnet has been linked to the recent surge in click-fraud and scareware attacks. This video by researchers at Click Forensics shows the Bahama Botnet in action. More on this botnet in this report...

Sophisticated Botnet Causing a Surge in Click Fraud

A new botnet has caused a sharp spike in click fraud because it is skirting the most sophisticated filters of search engines, Web publishers and ad networks, according to Click Forensics. The company, which provides services to monitor ad campaigns for click fraud and reports on click fraud...

Linux Botnet Discovered

From The H Security A network of hijacked Linux servers is apparently being used to distribute malicious software to Windows PCs. According to an analysis by web developer Denis Sinegubko, the comprised systems all have one thing in common: the light weight web server nginx is running and serving...

The Global Illicit Economy

Nils Gilman, an author and entrepreneur, details the common themes and techniques that connect the actors in the illicit economies around the world, including the malware and botnet economies...

Botmasters Holding Summer Clearance Sale

How much does a bot cost these days? Like everything else in our economy, the price of a bot-infected PC fluctuates significantly, based on supply, demand, volume purchased and any number of other factors. But according to research done by the folks at Cisco, bots can be had for as little as 10...

Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel

Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots — sending new links for the infected computers ...

Twitter-based Botnet, Obama and Cybersecurity and a New Linux Kernel Flaw

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher discuss the botnet being controlled through Twitter, Obama and cybersecurity, as well as the new Linux kernel flaw. Download SHOW NOTES: Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel Obama is Failing the Cybersecurity Test Another Linux Kernel...

Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel

Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots — sending new links for the infected computers ...

“Broiler”get the insider Secret's to exploit system vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

It has been, by a large number of“broiler”is composed of the zombiesweb, all the time not a threat to all web users safe.“ Chicken”, refers to those who are the attacker full control of a computer network, it is the composition of the botnet of the main factors. Therefore, in order to eliminate t...

Examining Conficker: When a worm becomes a botnet

From TechTarget Brian Sears I recently read an article where two experts expressed different ideas of what Conficker represented. One expert argued that Conficker was clearly not a botnet, as it lacked some of the basic abilities typically found in botnets. While the other expert said Conficker...

Eugene Kaspersky: Conficker could have been much worse

From CNet News Liam Tung Cybercrime fighter Eugene Kaspersky can’t help but be impressed by the slick operations behind the Conficker botnet, and says that it could have been worse had the botnet been after more than just money. “They are high-end engineers who write code in a good way,” Kaspersk...

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...

Pirated Windows 7 builds botnet with Trojan

From eWEEK Brian Prince Attackers pushing pirated, malware-laced copies of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system have been actively trying to build a botnet. According to researchers at Damballa, attackers hid a Trojan inside of pirated copies of the operating system and began circulati...

A Zeus botnet self-destructs

From The H Security According to information which only recently came to light, in early April a botnet consisting of an estimated 100,000 PCs apparently destroyed itself – as its control server send out a command that made Windows inoperable. The botnet was based on the Zeus rsa.com botnet tool...

Mac OS X e-mail worm squirming

From ZDNet Dancho Danchev A newly discovered email worm dubbed OSX/Tored-A once again puts the spotlight on the potential worm-ability, and malware spreading tactics targeting Apple’s OS X. The worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing...

Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation

Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a ten-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack .pdf, the...