T.J. Campana on the Waledac Botnet Takedown

Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine talk with Microsoft’s T.J. Campana about the company’s work to disrupt and take down the Waledac botnet and the other work being done by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Waledac Spam Botnet Domains Neutered

With the help of a U.S. federal judge, Microsoft has struck a blow against one of the Internet’s worst sources of spam: the notorious Waledac botnet. Microsoft said that it had been granted a court order that will cut off 277 .com domains associated with the botnet. Read the full article...

Botnet: Kneber

Kneber Zbot, BTN1 is a form of malware which is reported to have affected more than 74,000 PCs in 2,400 business and government systems around the world. Kneber, named after the username linking the infected computers worldwide Hilary Kneber, is related to the ZeuS botnet, a malware botnet packag...

Child of Storm Botnet 'Waledac' Is Expansive

In an undercover mission to learn more about the size and scope of the son of the infamous Storm botnet, Waledac, German researchers have discovered the spamming botnet is much bigger and more efficient than previously thought. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Conficker business model: Scareware and spam

The Conficker botnet has started to use its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware fake anti-virus programs to millions of infected Windows machines, according to malware hunters tracking the threat. The latest Conficker mutant comes a week after a heavily-hyped...