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Baddest botnets of 2012

Posted November 1, 2012 - 8:00 am

According to security firm Kindsight, these are the Top Ten Worst Botnets this year.
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Microsoft wins permanent settlement against Nitol botnet

Posted October 3, 2012 - 10:42 am

Microsoft has won a battle to permanently disrupt a haven for the Nitol botnet that it discovered within an Internet domain controlled by a Chinese ISP.
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What you should know about Grum and the botnet takedown

Posted July 20, 2012 - 5:03 pm

Grum--the third largest botnet in existence, and the source of nearly twenty percent of all spam traffic online--has been taken offline by authorities. In some ways the takedown is significant, but it may not change much in the grand scheme of things. Let's take a closer look at the botnet, and what the takedown means for all of us.
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Global effort stops half the world's spam

Posted July 20, 2012 - 3:35 pm

An international effort by spam fighters has taken down the infamous Grum botnet, slashing in half the worldwide amount of spam email.
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Authorities down servers of third-largest spam botnet

Posted July 18, 2012 - 9:21 pm

'It's a dogfight between the research community and the bot herders,' researcher says
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Video makes global botnet pandemic look pretty

Posted June 15, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Mapping just one minute of global communications among botnets makes it look as if we've been invaded from outer space, not just infected with malware.
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Dull-looking email from printer hides sophisticated malware

Posted June 8, 2012 - 1:33 pm

The more interesting a phishing email is the more end users will think about them and the more likely they are to become suspicious. A burst of spam from Russian malware servers disguises itself as the automated delivery of a scan, from a printer, not a person.
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Kaspersky doubles up slam at Apple, Mac OS X

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:11 pm

Two Kaspersky Labs top execs publicly and explicitly slammed Apple for poor security in recent weeks as Apple customers go through the pain of growing into malware targets and Kaspersky makes a big push to round up new customers for its cloud security service. Apple users, maybe.
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Khelihos P2P botnet rises from dead a third time

Posted March 28, 2012 - 1:42 pm

An alliance of security companies took down the 110,000-member Khelihos botnet this week by cracking its encryption, ending Khelihos II, The Sequel. The virus has already revived and begun to spread, as it did after Microsoft shut the original down last September,
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Powerful, simple new mass SQL injection attack opens 180K sites

Posted October 24, 2011 - 4:16 pm

A short SQL injection exploit has infected 180,000 servers, making each vulnerable to anyone who knows what to look for -- a set of potential victims whose browsers can be redirected easily to any site, holding any malware, the attacker wishes.
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Microsoft steals spotlight in botnet takedown from Kaspersky, which did the work

Posted September 30, 2011 - 12:30 pm

Microsoft's announcement, through the lawyer who runs its Digital Crimes Unit, that it took down another botnet was incomplete. It forgot to mention that Kaspersky Labs took down the botnet while Microsoft stood around to hand it tools and try to look useful.
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Microsoft's botnet take-down helps protect Mac users

Posted September 28, 2011 - 3:27 pm

Mac users can thank Microsoft for taking down a small but dangerous botnet -- Kelihos.
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Striking a domain provider, Microsoft kills off a botnet

Posted September 27, 2011 - 12:04 pm

Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking offline a provider of free Internet domains.
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Gang of Zeus-driven bank thieves put out of business

Posted September 26, 2011 - 4:31 pm

A mid-level organizer of an international online bank-theft ring that relied on the Zeus Trojan faces up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced Jan. 13 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of false IDs.
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To retrieve stolen data: Have it phone home to tell you where it is.

Posted August 18, 2011 - 5:07 pm

If banks can put dye packs and broadcasting GPS units that signal cops where stolen moneybags are being taken, why can't you do that for data? Honeypot technology shows you how, but existing honeytokens have to be better at sending calls for help.
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Microsoft will pay $250K for a botnet (er...the controllers of one -- Rustock)

Posted July 18, 2011 - 3:18 pm

In the software business, if you can't find a way to build or learn something -- or catch someone -- is to offer money. $250k for arrest of Ruststockers.Go Get 'em, everyone but Microsoft!
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Behind the curtain of a botnet business

Posted March 29, 2011 - 6:39 pm

Researchers gain access to one of the world's largest spam botnets, and find it's an operation that as organized and crafty as any successful corporation
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Botnet takedown makes Microsoft sound like Internet's new sheriff

Posted March 18, 2011 - 12:06 pm

Microsoft took credit for the takedown of its second botnet yesterday, making itself sound like a combination of the FBI and CSI at the same time.
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With Rustock, a new twist on fighting Internet crime

Posted March 18, 2011 - 8:52 am

For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world's worst spam botnet offline?
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Rustock botnet goes quiet, reason for takedown unclear

Posted March 17, 2011 - 12:25 pm

Spam-sending botnet Rustock has suddenly ceased activity, but it's having a small effect of spam levels.
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The Internet's next big growth industry: botnets

Posted March 8, 2011 - 2:17 pm

Botnet makers are shifting from front-line crime to software development, renting their product to anyone with money to pay and mayhem to make.
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Suddenly everyone has a cyberweapon; and they're big

Posted February 15, 2011 - 4:58 pm

Researchers show how to use secure core Internet routing protocols to kill core Internet routers; Anonymous releases Stuxnet. Time to get Amish.
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Botnets boomed in 2010, says report

Posted February 15, 2011 - 3:37 pm

2010 was a great year for botnets, particularly for the cyber criminals who run them. A report released Tuesday by security firm Damballa finds new botnets cropped up at a record pace in 2010.
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Rustock awakens, spam volume back up

Posted January 11, 2011 - 6:17 pm

After a brief period of low spam levels, top-dog spam botnet Rustock appears to be back in business
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Is Storm/Waldec botnet part of New Year spam campaign?

Posted January 3, 2011 - 9:37 pm

The Storm/Waldec botnet may be behind a new spam campaign that was recently launched to kick off 2011. According to researchers with Shadowserver Foundation, the campaign is designed to look like a New Year's-themed e-card. Users receive a message that says "Charley has created a New Year e-card. To view this page please click here." The user is then directed to a server that asks them to download a Flash player, which in turn installs malware onto the user's machine.
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