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...

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,...

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...

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...

Facebook Password-Reset Spam is Botnet Attack

Virus hunters are raising the alarm for a large-scale spam attack that uses fake Facebook password-reset messages to trick PC users into downloading a dangerous piece of malware. The malicious executable is linked to the Bredolab botnet, which has been linked to massive spam runs and identity-the...