SpyEye and Zeus Malware: Married Or Living Separately?

Everyone knows that the first year of marriage can be a tough one -around three percent of them end in the first 12 months. Looks like the same can be true of malware marriages, with the union of the Zeus and SpyEye Trojan now in question. Just one year after news broke that the Zeus and SpyEye...

Researcher: Malware, Increasingly Interdependent, Stifles Security Wares

BARCELONA — A researcher says that malicious software such as botnets and browser exploit kits are becoming more and more interdependent, complicating the job of those who seek to detect and remove the malware. Aditya Sood, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering ...

Attackers Adjusting Tactics to Evade Reputation Systems

BARCELONA–As in life, reputations on the Internet take time to build up. Attackers interested in making a quick buck aren’t necessarily the most patient lot, so as the various repuation systems on the Web have gotten more sophisticated and accurate, the bad guys have had to adjust their tactics a...

Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet

Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are responsible for the operation of the Kelihos botnet. The company has also helped to take down the...

Spam Report: USA No Longer The World's Most Obnoxious Nation

For the first time in recent memory, the United States is no longer among the world’s premier spam distributors. In fact, the US isn’t even in the top ten, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab. The U.S., once a preeminent leader in pushing out spam e-mail now only occasionally appears in...

2011 DDoS Botnet Landscape

Botnets have been a problem for more than a decade now, but in recent years they’ve become a serious security threat, delivering exploit kits, malware and mass Web site injections. In this video, Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks discusses the current botnet landscape and the adoption of new modular...

New Report Finds U.S. Hosting Providers Infested With Malware, Botnets

The United States used to be the leading industrial nation in the world, producing the best cars, TVs, clothes and deep-fried Twinkies. Those days are gone, but the U.S. can still claim primacy in one important area: the most malware-infested, phishing-friendly hosting provider. The newest report...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

Javascript Character Manipulation Obfuscation (Fragus)

Exploit packs, such as Fragus, are toolkits used by cybercriminals to easily snare victims for their botnets. Solutions enabling security product bypass are often integrated within such tools. Although various security products provide coverage against many web vulnerabilities, such as ActiveX...

Stop Payments Stop Spam, Researchers Find

“Follow the money” – it was good advice for Woodward and Bernstein in their investigation of the Watergate scandal. It turns out to be good advice for those wishing to stamp out spam e-mail, also. That’s the conclusion of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the University...

Botnets: 2011 Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference

Botnets have become one of the most dangerous cyber threats affecting businesses today. Botnets criminals focus on the same things as most criminals: money and information. That is why these criminals are targeting payroll, human resources departments, C-level executives and senior strategists...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

Mitigating and Taking Down Botnets

Researchers and law enforcement officials have been working on taking down and crippling various botnets such as Rustock, Storm, Conficker and others for years. It’s a complex problem, and in this video Ryan Naraine talks with Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Tillmann Werner about the Conficker...

Security Threats Increasing in Sophistication and Precision

IBM’s X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk report showed that as vulnerability disclosures hit their highest level ever in 2010, security threats continued to increase in sophistication and precision. Like the term or not, 2010 may well have been the year of the APT, the term has become familiar to nearly...

Web-Based Spam Now a Global Problem

BOSTON–Since virtually the dawn of the commercial Web and the advent of widespread email use, spam has been a major problem and it has grown to a point that botnets are now spewing trillions of spam messages every month. But, email spam is just one piece of a much larger ecosystem that now is...

The Pharmaceutical Spam Machine

In this Lab Matters webcast, Kaspersky Lab senior spam analyst Maria Namestnikova looks closely at the pharmaceutical spam operations and discusses how spammers are using affiliate programs and rebuilt botnets to recover from last year’s crackdown...

Alex Lanstein on the Rustock Botnet Takedown

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Lanstein of FireEye about this week’s takedown of the Rustock botnet, the important legal precedent it helped set with Microsoft’s lawsuit and the mechanics behind the operation and dismantling of large-scale botnets. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to t...

Europe's Cybersecurity Agency Gears Up for War on Botnets !

The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA, Europe's Cyber security agency, issued a report focused on botnets this week titled, "Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence." The report discusses the reliability of botnet size estimates and provides recommendations...

Europe prepares for war with botnets !

EU cyber security agency ENISA has warned that ISPs, end users and governments all have a role to play in stopping the global menace of botnet-related cyber crime. Botnets, such as the one that uses the infamous Zeus malware to infect machines, are growing in scope and scale, and ENISA has releas...