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...

Which ISPs Are Hosting the Bad Guys?

Security blogger Brian Krebs has compiled lists of the top 10 ISPs who are hosting the worst botnets, spam, phishing, and other malware from independent tracking organizations. These lists come from: Stop Badware, F.I.R.E., Phishtank, Zeustracker, Malware Domain List, Arbor Top ASN List, Emerging...

How Japanese ISPs Deal with Botnets

Japan’s “Cyber Clean Center” is a little-known effort by the Japanese Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center JP-CERT and a collection of 76 Japanese ISPs covering 90 percent of the nation’s Internet users to fight botnets and other security issues. Read the full article...

Lethic Spamming Botnet Shut Down

Yet another botnet has been shut down as of today as researchers joined forces with ISPs to cut communications to the prolific Lethic spamming botnet — a development that illustrates how botnet hunters increasingly are going on the offensive to stop cybercriminals, mainly by disrupting their...

Shadowserver Data Reveals Top Conficker Victims

ISPs in Russia and Ukraine are home to some of the highest concentrations of customers whose machines are infected with the Conficker worm, shows data from the Shadowserver Foundation. Read the full article. Washington Post...

FDA Trying to Close Fake Prescription Sites

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pressuring a number of Internet service providers to shut off nearly 12 dozen Web sites alleged to be selling counterfeit or unapproved prescription drugs. The agency said none of the sites represent pharmacies located in the United States or Canada, as mo...

vnc.DoS.txt

4/10/99 O.k I dont know if this is an really interresting thing but when I fire up the script Mimeflood.pl on my Linux-sytems against a Virtual Network Computing server who listens on port 5800 for incoming connection http, the program crashes whitin a few seconds. A Couple of ISP here in the...