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Original Technorati articles tagged “botnet”

• in IT
  The Indestructible Botnet: TDL-4
  Botnets rise to a whole new level with TDL-4
  by karan1337 / on Oct 27, 2011
• in IT
  FBI Hijacks Botnet, Drives it Off the Cliff
  FBI remotly kills the Coreflow botnet, some experts feel concerned.
  by kriztov / on Apr 18, 2011
• in Technology
  Darkness Ddos Bot Spreads the Pain in Europe
  The EU's statistics office has released alarming virus stats.
  by layllah / on Feb 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “botnet”

 

• Four Years Jail For Bredolab Botnet Author

  
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  angry tapir writes "The creator of the Bredolab malware has received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia for using his botnet to launch DDoS attacks that damaged multiple computer systems owned by private individuals and organizations. G. Avanesov was sentenced by the Court of First Instance of Armenias Arabkir and ...
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• Four Years Jail For Bredolab Botnet Author

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 141
  angry tapir writes "The creator of the Bredolab malware has received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia for using his botnet to launch DDoS attacks that damaged multiple computer systems owned by private individuals and organizations. G. Avanesov was sentenced by the Court of First Instance of Armenias Arabkir and ...
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• Google Chrome logging file downloads to Google servers. Is this to stop piracy?

  
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  The Google Chrome browser is reportedly logging all downloads to users computers. Google has added some new security functionality to Chrome. Every time that the user downloads a file, the browser will compare it against a white-list of known-good files and publishers. If the file is not in the white-list, its URL ...
  2 days ago

• Google reaches out to owners of machines infected with DNSChanger malware

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 823
  Today Google announced it would be leading a campaign to notify users whose PCs were infected by the DNSChanger malware. The malware was part of a scam that came to light last November when the U.S. Department of Justice accused seven Estonian and Russian men of orchestrating several different kinds of Internet ...
  2 days ago

• Just Like Old Times: Spam, Malware Levels Spike in April

  
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  Those of you who follow this type of thing know that email spam levels have declined in the recent past due to a number of factors: First, several take downs of high volume botnets have bitten a large chunk out the automation of email spam. Then there’s the simple fact that we’ve been reporting for a while ...
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• Employee "Disciplined" For Installing Bitcoin Software On Federal Webservers

  
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  Fluffeh writes "Around a year ago, a person working for the ABC in Australia with the highest levels of access to systems got caught caught with his fingers on the CPU cycles. The staffer had installed Bitcoin mining software on the systems used by the Australian broadcaster. While the story made a bit of a splash at ...
  4 days ago

• Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says

  
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  (Credit: Intego) The high-profile Flashback Trojan that is estimated to have infected more than 600,000 Macs at its peak earlier this year would have earned its creators $14,000 in the course of three weeks. The only hitch is that the money isn’t going anywhere. In a …
  1 week ago

• Apple issues Leopard update with Flashback removal tool

  
  Know All That! — Authority: 157
  Folks still rocking Apples Leopard may have been feeling left out after Lion and Snow Leopard both got an update for addressing that Flashback malware . If youre one of them, youll be glad to know that Apple has finally issued a Leopard fix that comes with a removal tool for the virus afflicting its big cats. In ...
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• Apple issues Leopard update with Flashback removal tool - Engadget

  
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  Engadget If youre one of them, youll be glad to know that Apple has finally issued a Leopard fix that comes with a removal tool for the virus afflicting its big cats. In addition to a 1.23MB Flashback update, Apple also released a second 1.11MB fix for ...
  1 week ago

• King of Spam: Festi botnet analysis

  
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  We have just completed fresh analysis of the malicious software known as Win32/Festi. While the "Festi" botnet created with this malware has been in business since the autumn of 2009 we can see that the software is frequently updated, as described in our analysis, and these updates mean Festi continues to be a potent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code

  
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  Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious botnet code. As I wrote in my earlier blog , malware authors also use Pastebin to trade botnet kits. Many times, snippets of a botnet help researchers understand the workings of the botnet and write detections for it. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Website Security: Spot a Bot to Stop a Botnet

  
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  The standalone algorithm is heuristic in nature Computer scientists in India have developed a two-pronged algorithm that can detect the presence of a botnet on a computer network and block its malicious activities before it causes too much harm. The team describes details of the system in a forthcoming issue of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft claims raid damaged cybercrime syndicate’s operations

  
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  Recently, Microsoft and its partners in the banking industry revealed a behind-the-scenes detailed look at a raid they claim disrupted a large-scale cybercrime outfit. The cybercrime operation employed malicious software to allegedly steal from consumers during the past five years. All told, the cybercrime syndicate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Apple-Targeting Flashback Botnet Still Kicking, But Shrinking By 100,000 Macs Per Week – Forbes

  
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  The creators of the Flashback trojan have made their mark as the first Mac-targeting malware authors to create an enormous, half-million strong botnet. But their fun is nearly over. Dr. Web, the Russian security firm that firm discovered the … Flashback botnet – Bing News Passed through but not fully ...
  3 weeks ago

• Symantec: Flashback botnet could generate up to $10k per day in ad clicks – Ars Technica

  
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  Antivirus and security firm Symantec says the true motivation behind the massive Flashback malware infection is revenue—ad revenue, that is. In a post to its Security Response blog, Symantec wrote that a Flashback botnet has the potential to generate up … Flashback botnet – Bing News Passed through but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Daily Update for May 1, 2012

  
  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Authority: 708
  Its the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. Youll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of whats happening in the Apple world. You can listen to todays Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) or the non-Flash ...
  3 weeks ago

• Symantec estimates Flashback trojan could have netted authors $10,000 a day during its peak

  
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  Ok, so maybe crime DOES pay… Per Symantec’s company blog , the malware known as “Flashback” that was believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of Macs may have paid out as much as US$10,000 a day to its authors. The estimate comes from Symantec, which said in a post to its official blog that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Symantec estimates Flashback trojan could have netted authors $10,000 a day during its peak

  
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  Ok, so maybe crime DOES pay… Per Symantec’s company blog , the malware known as “Flashback” that was believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of Macs may have paid out as much as US$10,000 a day to its authors. The estimate comes from Symantec, which said in a post to its official blog that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Symantec: Flashback botnet could generate up to $10k per day in ad clicks

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 823
  Antivirus and security firm Symantec says the true motivation behind the massive Flashback malware infection is revenue—ad revenue, that is. In a post to its Security Response blog, Symantec wrote that a Flashback botnet has the potential to generate up to $10,000 per day in ad clicks, primarily impacting Google ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mac botnet generated $10,000 a day for Flashback gang – ZDNet

  
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  Summary: Flashback was robbing Google of advertising dollars by redirecting clicks from infected Mac OS X machines and stealing the ad revenue. Security researchers at Symantec are estimating that the cyber-crimibals behind the Flashback Mac OS … Flashback botnet – Bing News Passed through but not fully ...
  3 weeks ago

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