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Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people. Extortion by email is growing...
Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)
Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...
Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)
Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...
Peer-to-Peer Botnet Takedowns a Challenge
The FBI, Justice Department and technology companies have had success shutting down botnets that rely on a centralized infrastructure and command and control servers to communicate with bots, steal data or send malicious commands. Peer-to-peer botnets, however, have proven more difficult to take...
MediaWiki < 1.3.17 / 1.4.11 / 1.5.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
According to its version number, the version of MediaWiki running on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A denial of service vulnerability exists due to an unspecified flaw in 'edit submission handling' that causes the corruption of the previous submission. A remote attack...