Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who've recently re-indicted him on related charges. NiceHash CTO Matjaž "Iserdo...

DHS Releases Hundreds of Documents on Wrong Project Aurora

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request for information about the Operation Aurora attack on Google and other organizations in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of pages of documents related not to that attack campaign, but to the Aurora project run at Idaho...

Mariposa Botnet

Overview ICS-CERT has received reports and investigated infections of the MariposaDefence Intelligence, http://defintel.com/docs/MariposaAnalysis.pdf, website last accessed March 15, 2010. botnet, which have affected the business networks of multiple control system owners in recent months. ICS-CE...

VSploit Mariposa DNS Query Module

This module queries known Mariposa Botnet DNS records. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VSploit Mariposa DNS Query Module', 'Description' = 'This module queries known Mariposa...

Mariposa: December, 2009

The takedown of the Mariposa botnet is an example of both the possibilities and complications facing law enforcement around the world as they work to stamp out botnets. A cyberlaw enforcement success story, the take down of Mariposa by Spanish authorities in December, 2009, followed months of wor...

U.S. Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country

The U.S. has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new report by Microsoft. The quarterly report on malicious software and Internet attacks shows that whil...

Gaps In International Cyber Law Could Hamper Mariposa Case

ED: Gaps in international cyber law could hamper Mariposa case DEK: The take down of the Mariposa botnet is a cyber law enforcement success story – but gaps in international cyber law could make it difficult to prosecute those behind the botnet. A researcher involved in the analysis and dismantli...

Three Mariposa Botnet Suspects Arrested

Slovenian police will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss the arrest of three men in connection the massive Mariposa botnet that was disabled late last year. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Mariposa Botnet Suspects Desired Security Jobs

Two of the accused Mariposa botnet operators in Spain requested jobs at Panda Security in March some 2 months after their arrest, according to a Panda Security official. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

To Catch a Botnet: How Mariposa Was Busted

More details follow the news of the Spanish botnet Mariposa and its owners being caught. The Mariposa Working Group infiltrated the command-and-control structure of Mariposa to monitor the communication channels that relayed information from compromised systems back to the hackers who run the...

Mariposa Botnet Caught and Killed

Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers known as the Mariposa botnet, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs. Read the full article. Associated Press...