Apparently he stopped his naughty activities back in 2006, but still…a guy that is supposed to securing machines was installing malware and had a bot totaling about a quarter of a million zombies. Most used for info gathering, Paypal accounts and installing Malware for comission, he claims to have made $19,000 in a week installing […]
Tags: botnet, botnets, hacker, hackers, malware, security consultant, trojans, trust, viruses, zombies
Posted in: Legal Issues, Malware | Add a CommentIt 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 […]
Tags: anti-virus, blog hacking, blogspot, botnets, bots, malware, storm, storm worm, trojans, virii, virus, viruses, worms
Posted in: Malware | Add a CommentWell at least it shows the Internet is not very susceptible to such attacks due to its distributed nature, even if the root nameservers are down, the DNS system still functions. This was a pretty heavy attack though and the most significant in the past 5 years or so, someone testing their ego I guess. […]
Tags: botnets, ddos, denial-of-service, dns-attack, dns-hacking, dos, hacking-root-dns, root-dns, root-server-attack, zombies
Posted in: General News, Network Hacking | Add a CommentThis effort started quite a long time ago, I was just checking up to see how they were getting on, but there’s not much news of their progress. perating under the theory that if you kill the head, the body will follow, a group of high-profile security researchers is ramping up efforts to find and […]
Tags: botnets, bots, computer-hacking, darknet, hacking, malware, spyware, trojans, viruses
Posted in: Countermeasures, Malware | Add a CommentMalware herders are speeding up, the first wave is already here for MS06-40. It’s basically a variant of some old malware suited to the new vulnerability. Same old story then, same packer, technique, new exploit. Same as the days of autorooters. It’s basically the Mocbot trojan that was used in the Zotob worm attack in […]
Tags: anti-virus, botnets, bots, darknet, exploits, malware, ms06-40, trojans, viruses, vulnerabilities, worms
Posted in: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Malware | Add a CommentBotnets are indeed a growing problem, we’ve seen serious cases of DDoS extortion, the most recent example would be the attacks against the ‘million dollar homepage’ and the problems it caused the owner. Botnets have been used for quite some time as spam networks and mostly for script kiddies to have DoS wars on IRC […]
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Posted in: Countermeasures, Malware, Network Hacking | Add a CommentBotnets and organises cybercrime is getting more prevalent, it seems it’s increasing exponentially despire crackdowns by the US governments and other organisations. The criminals are getting more advanced, phishing scams are getting more realistic, technically trojans are getting more effective and the groups are getting really organised. Cybercrooks are organizing better and moving to more […]
Tags: botnets, computer-security, crackdown, Information-Security, malware, network-security, Phishing, trojans, worms
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