Researchers Find Flaw in Dirt Jumper Bot

A team of researchers has discovered a weakness in the command-and-control infrastructure of one of the major DDoS toolkits, Dirt Jumper, that enables them to stop attacks that are in progress. The discovery gives the researchers the ability to access the back-end servers that control the attack...

Dutch Authorities Knock Out Grum Botnet C&C Servers

Dutch authorities have knocked out two of the command-and-control servers for one of the top spam-producing botnets, known as Grum. The action was not a complete knockout though, as there are still two other C&C servers at work, but researchers are optimistic that the volume of spam will drop as ...

BlackHole Exploit Kit Gets New Domain-Generation Algorithm

Nothing is more frustrating than spending days or weeks compromising dozens of Web sites and setting up your network of malicious redirects and then finding out that someone has screwed it all up by taking down one of your infected sites. Luckily, the crew behind the BlackHole exploit kit has...

The Hidden Security Risks of P2P Traffic

For years enterprises have been trying to control peer-to-peer P2P technologies inside their networks, and for good reason. The efficiency with which P2P technology move large files have made P2P networks key enablers of the Internet grey market by acting as the distribution mechanism of choice f...

Call for Articles - July Edition | The Hacker News Monthly Magazine

Call for Articles - July Edition | The Hacker News Monthly Magazine Attention Readers!! We know there is a writer in all of you and we invite you to submit your best work on the subject of BOTNETS for our July The Hacker News Monthly Magazine. Give us all your expertise and knowledge on the subje...

Adele Bests Adderall As Affiliate Spammers Offer Music Downloads

Cyber criminals long ago discovered that there’s a big market for pharmaceuticals online, prompting a tsunami of pharmaceutical spam offering everything from “herbal Viagra” to Prozac and Adderall. But new data from security firm Webroot suggests that scammers are experimenting with new products,...

White House Lays Out Plans To Tackle Botnets

The White House revealed today a set of initiatives it plans to use as part of its public-private partnership to combat increasingly disruptive networks of infected computers known as botnets. In one of his last acts as White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Howard Schmidt on Wednesday unveiled t...

Five Shocking Statistics From The Latest Internet Threat Report

Anti malware company Symantec released its threat report for 2011 on Monday. Buried in the dry statistics about the number of Web based attacks and malicious programs detected during the year are some surprising facts. Among them: religious-themed Web sites are among the dirtiest on the Internet...

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector DDOS attacks against the financial sector almost tripled during the first quarter of this year, according to DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The firm also reported a 3,000 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in malicious packet traffi...

Page's CEO Letter Gives Short Shrift To Privacy, Security

Privacy and security are not the top concerns for Google’s Larry Page, at least if the CEO’s most recent message to investors is any indication. The 3,500 word letter makes scant mention of either security or user privacy and gives the public little indication of Google’s plans to address the...

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System DNS and Internet routing attacks. AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Ti...

Albania is the most Malware infected Nation

Albania is the most Malware infected Nation Researchers at Security firms Norman and Microsoft Analyse data from their security products that Albania is the most Malware infected Nation, with 65% of scanned computers reporting infections. Rest Most Infected Countries are South Korea, Guatemala,...

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Vitaly Kamluk As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass...

Cloud Service Linode Hacked, Bitcoin Accounts Emptied

A security compromise at Linode, the New Jersey-based Linux cloud provider, has warned customers that hackers breached a Web-based customer service portal used by the company and emptied the Bitcoin accounts of eight Linode customers. One Linode customer reports the theft of Bitcoins totalling...

NSA Develops New, Super-Secure Android Phone

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA released the specifications for a new, super-secure smartphone for use by government officials and based on Google’s widely-used Android operating system, inviting the public to make use of its research. The intelligence agency produced a limited run of about...

DDoS Attacks Hit Russian Media Sites in Advance of Elections

While Russians prepare for their presidential election on March 4, attackers already are ahead of the game, having begun a series of DDoS attacks against several media sites and at least one site belonging to a candidate. The attacks are coming from several different botnets, but so far haven’t h...

Microsoft Readying Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

New York City – Microsoft has proven that it can take down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts available to governments, law enforcement and customers as a real time threat intelligence feed...

Hackers selling cheap BOTNETs and DDOS on forums

Hackers selling cheap BOTNETs and DDOS on forums The Internet has revolutionized shopping around the world. Security researchers F-Secure reported recently in a post that hackers are Selling Cheap DDOS services on Various Forums. Hackers are offering services like distributed denial of service...

Research: Botnets, the Most Prevalent Threat in the Enterprise

Botnets are the most significant source of malicious Web traffic for enterprises on the Internet, according to new research from ZScaler’s ThreatLabz. Over the past 30 days, botnets have accounted for nearly 80 percent of the security blocks within ZScaler’s network. In a distant second place amo...

irc-botnet-channels NSE Script

Checks an IRC server for channels that are commonly used by malicious botnets. Control the list of channel names with the irc-botnet-channels.channels script argument. The default list of channels is loic Agobot Slackbot Mytob Rbot SdBot poebot IRCBot VanBot MPack Storm GTbot Spybot Phatbot Wargb...