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Is your PC haunted by Ghost Click?

Posted November 10, 2011 - 12:52 pm

The FBI just took down a criminal botnet that hijacked more 4 million PCs worldwide. Here's how to find out if yours is among them.
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How hackers get caught

Posted October 24, 2011 - 12:45 pm

Carelessness in concealing home IP addresses, servers and Twitter accounts puts the FBI on more hacker doorsteps than any mistake but the most obvious: don't tell people you did it.
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Check Point software takes aim at botnets

Posted October 5, 2011 - 1:29 pm

Check Point Software is coming out with technology designed specifically to fight bots by discovering infections, finding command and control servers and cutting off communications with them.
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Rustock take-down proves botnets can be crippled, says Microsoft

Posted July 5, 2011 - 3:17 pm

Microsoft today said the coordinated take-down of the Rustock botnet and follow-up efforts had purged the malware from over half of the PCs once controlled by Russian hackers.
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Botmaster's extravagant spending attracted police

Posted July 4, 2011 - 8:25 am

Conspicuous spending -- not technical sleuthing -- unearthed what may be the largest login-stealing botnet yet known, according to one expert working on the case.
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DNS agility leads to botnet detection

Posted June 21, 2011 - 4:58 pm

Research out of the Georgia Institute of Technology can detect when bot masters reserve domains to set up command-and-control networks.
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Microsoft pursues botnet herders via Russian newspapers

Posted June 8, 2011 - 5:56 am

Microsoft has placed quarter-page notifications in two Russian newspapers, a legal formality required as part of its ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. against operators of Rustock, a defunct botnet used to send prolific amounts of pharmaceutical spam.
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Zeus leaks give tools to researchers, attackers

Posted May 13, 2011 - 4:09 pm

The source code and a manual for the Zeus crimeware framework have been leaked, allowing defenders a peak inside the infamous crime kit's infrastructure but perhaps giving attackers better ideas.
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Cross-platform botnet targets both Windows and Mac users

Posted May 9, 2011 - 11:36 am

A McAfee researcher has discovered a Java-based, cross-platform botnet that can infect both Mac and Windows macines.
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Feds to remotely uninstall Coreflood bot from some PCs

Posted April 27, 2011 - 6:10 am

Federal authorities will remotely uninstall the Coreflood botnet Trojan from some infected Windows PCs over the next four weeks.
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Court order cripples Coreflood botnet, says FBI

Posted April 26, 2011 - 3:45 pm

Although the FBI said a federal temporary restraining order has crippled the Coreflood botnet in the U.S., Microsoft today took the unusual step of pushing a second version of its monthly malware cleaner to Windows users to again quash the botnet.
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DOJ gets court permission to attack botnet

Posted April 13, 2011 - 5:09 pm

The DOJ seizes servers and serves search warrants in an effort to take down the long-running Coreflood botnet.
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New method finds botnets that hide behind changing domains

Posted March 28, 2011 - 12:47 pm

Researchers at Texas A&M University believe they have a new way of fighting domain-fluxing botnets
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Botnets, cloud computing power may be fueling attacks against VoIP

Posted March 9, 2011 - 8:36 pm

A spike in attacks against IP PBXs that started last fall shows no signs of abating, spawning speculation that those responsible have tapped into botnets and cloud computing resources to carry out their illegal activities.
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Botnets boomed in 2010, says report

Posted February 15, 2011 - 2:37 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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Security firm 'detonates' copies of suspicious files to sniff out malware, botnet attacks

Posted January 31, 2011 - 11:37 am

HBGary Monday introduced an appliance that sits at the perimeter of the enterprise network to watch for possible incoming malware and outgoing traces of botnet infections.
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Digital black market offers cheap botnets for hire

Posted January 24, 2011 - 12:40 pm

Botnets for hire to launch your own spam campaign and stolen credit card information sold at the rock bottom price of $2 are just two of the commodities easily found on the cyber-crime black market today, according to a report released this month by Panda Security. The report, which was conducted by PandaLabs researchers who posed as cyber criminals, details a vast criminal network selling stolen bank account information in forums and dedicated online stores.
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MPack, NeoSploit and Zeus top most notorious Web attack toolkit list

Posted January 18, 2011 - 8:43 am

About two-thirds of malicious Web activity can be traced back to botnets and exploit code built using popular attack toolkits like MPack and Zeus sold in the underground economy, according to a new Symantec report.
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Report: Bad guys will seek re-enforcements, recycle code

Posted December 16, 2010 - 10:22 am

A new report from Fortinet predicts the bad guys will hire re-enforcements to stay ahead of botnet takedowns. They will also turn on each other over territory and recycle malicious code, which will in turn lead to more confusion.
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Feds draw a bead on Russian behind Mega-D botnet

Posted December 1, 2010 - 2:03 pm

An Internet ring hawking counterfeit male-enhancement remedies, phony Rolexes and generic pills with false FDA approval has led the FBI to a Russian believed to be behind the Mega-D botnet.
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Fighting botnets: Service rates reputation of IP addresses

Posted October 28, 2010 - 8:58 am

Startup service provider ipTrust today said it was offering a program that lets businesses avoid botnets and infected machines by letting them know whether IP addresses are linked to suspicious behavior.
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The botnet business

Posted June 1, 2010 - 7:00 am

Cybercrime is big business... and you might be in it without knowing.
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Big botnets and how to stop them

Posted June 1, 2010 - 7:00 am

Here are the worst of the botnets, and ways you can try to stop them in their tracks.
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Attackers going after end users rather than servers

Posted February 22, 2010 - 8:35 pm

The Web traffic study also finds issues with botnets, corporate policies, and outdated browsers.
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Two of the World’s Largest Botnets May Be Connected

Posted October 13, 2008 - 5:29 am

Rustock and Srizbi, two of the worldâ€™s biggest spam botnets, may be connected. Researchers have discovered that the two botnets share the same malware delivery method, a Trojan called Trojan.Exchange, which is activated when unsuspecting users click on malicious links in spam messages.
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