Facebook Carries Out Lecpetex Botnet Takedown

Facebook has moved slowly and deliberately into the realm of botnet takedowns by disrupting a relatively small operation in Greece that was using the social platform to spread spam and malware. Two arrests were made in connection with the Lecpetex botnet in Greece on July 3. The alleged botmaster...

Facebook Takes Down Bitcoin Stealing Botnet that Infected 250,000 Computers

Once again Facebook is on The Hacker News! This time not for any scam or surveillance, but for a different reason. The social networking giant has managed to take down a Greek botnet that used Facebook to spread malware and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal bitcoins, ema...