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Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Botnet For Hire

Posted in April 29th, 2010
by admin in Legal Issues, Malware, bot herder, bot herders, botnet, botnet for hire, custom malware, david anthony edwards, david edwards, nettick, rent botnet, rss, t35, t35 hack, t35.net, t35.net hack, texan hacker, texas, thomas james frederick smith, thomas smith, trojans, virus, worms, z00k   

Another botnet herder bites the dust, the latest news in the malware arena is about David Anthony Edwards from Texas who has admitted he and his accomplice had offered tailor made malware and DDoS attacks for rent.
22,000 zombies is a reasonable number…

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China Reports Millions Of Conficker Infections

Posted in April 20th, 2010
by admin in China, Malware, botnet, botnets, china conficker, china conficker infections, china malware, cncert, conficker, conficker b, conficker botnet, conficker virus, conficker worm, ddos, denial-of-service, dos, rss, shadowserver, trojans, viruses   

Conficker has been giving us all headaches for quite some time now, the latest news it that China hosts up to 28% of the World Conficker infections at its peak.
7 million separate hosts infected with Conficker at the end of 2009, that’s more than…

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Facebook E-mail Spam Conceals Malware Attack

Posted in October 28th, 2009
by admin in Facebook, Malware, Social Engineering, Spammers & Scammers, anti sandbox, botnet, bredolab, bredolab trojan, cutwail, drone, facebook password, facebook security, facebook spam, hacking-facebook, password theft, pushdo, rss, sandbox, scam, scammers, spam, spammers, viruses, worm, zombie   

Facebook has had a fair share of problems, being a large community of course it’s going to be a ripe target for spammers, scammers and malware distributors.
The latest to hit is a spam e-mail claiming to be from the Facebook team that actually sp…

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Twitter Being Used As Botnet Command Channel

Posted in August 17th, 2009
by admin in Malware, Network Hacking, botnet, botnet command, botnet command channel, botnets, rss, twitter, twitter botnet, worms   

Ah Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time it’s being used as the command channel for a Botnet.
The norm…

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Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested

Posted in July 2nd, 2009
by admin in General Hacking, Legal Issues, Malware, arrested, botnet, ddos, dos, fail, ghostexodus, hacker arrested, hospital hacker, jesse william mcgraw, owned, pwned, rss, script kiddy   

This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming)..
But then he exposed his IP addr…

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