Another one bites the dust with another reasonably hefty sentence, this time a botherder or botnet master.
Just under 4 years and a big chunk of change as a fine, I guess he probably has plenty of cash stashed somewhere though. These guys can really rake it in with their mass infectors of doom.

A US-based hacker [...]

Now this is an interesting turn of events, the Asprox botnet malware is being used to spread SQL Injection tools rather than sending out phishing e-mails as before.
It seems to install quite stealthily as well disguising itself as a Windows Service with a fairly convincing file name. It’s certainly interesting to see the evolution of [...]

We wrote a while back about a new wave of sophisticated botnets, which were predicted to overtake Storm and become the largest infectors online.
It seems like it’s come true, after extensive research Damballa has uncovered the biggest botnet ever, which at present has over 400,000 unique IPs (in a space of only 24 hours) which [...]

It seems like botnets are getting more sophisticated - we thought the Storm Worm was pretty hot, but some of these new contenders are showing the guys on the dark side has some advanced understanding of technology and the architecture many companies use…this enables them to get deeper inside and remain undetected

Researchers have unearthed two [...]

Hacking for money again? Well not really in this case, more like script kiddying for money - modifying an ‘off the shelf’ malware/bot package to evade detection and then cashing in on spamware affiliate fees.
I guess they could have made much with a 400,000 bot network - by renting it out for DDoS attacks to [...]

It seems like malware pushers have found another avenue to delivery their payloads, Embassy websites. Which makes sense as they are probably not maintained well nor updated often meaning the chance they are easily compromised is quite high.
Plus a lot probably use off the shelf CMS software, which when not updated is a playground for [...]

We’ve covered quite a few Storm stories - now it seems there is a new player in town, which could possibly the most advanced malware and botnet instigator so far.
It’s also something I’ve predicted before, peer to peer malware networks running without a command and control server, no single point of failure and much more [...]

So what’s coming next, after Storm you might ask. You might remember Storm Worm Descending on Blogspot recently and other news about Botnets spiraling out of control accounting for almost 25% of online computers.
Well apparently next will be p2p or peer to peer Botnets which could literally blow Storm away.

You know about the Storm Trojan, [...]

It seems like spammers, scammers, phishers and now malware authors are starting to leverage blogs more and more, especially Blogger/Blogspot as Google tend to be quite slow in responding and sometimes don’t respond at all.
This makes it an ideal platform for dodgy behaviour as the crooks have adequate lead time to con/infect people before they [...]

Social Engineering again, someone praying on xmas spirit and good will to spread their filthy malware.
It quite often happens during festive times, someone hatches a new worm and sends it out packaged as a jolly xmas card or game.

A significant worm outbreak over the new year festivities has put paid to the notion we’ve seen [...]