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Security Researchers Discover 4 Million Strong ‘Indestructible’ Botnet – TDSS/TDL

Posted in July 4th, 2011
by in alureon, botnet, botnets, cast iron botnet, huge botnet, Malware, rss, tdl, tdl botnet, tdl malware, tdl trojan, tdl-4, tdss, trojans, Windows Hacking   

It’s been recently uncovered that there’s a HUGE botnet, which is extremely advanced and constantly evolving a variant of the ever popular (and usually quite advanced) TDL strain. We did write about a TDL variant earlier in 2010 – TDL…

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Digital Underground Offering Cheap Botnets For Hire

Posted in January 25th, 2011
by in botnet, botnet for hire, botnets, buy botnet, buy bots, cyber-crime, hire botnet, Malware, Phishing, rss, Spammers & Scammers, trojan, trojans, worm, worms   

Perhaps even the cyber-criminals are effected by the recent recession – botnets for hire are hitting rock-bottom rates starting at just $2. We reported back in April 2010 about the Texas Man Who Pleaded Guilty To Bot Network For Hire. They are be…

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Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Botnet For Hire

Posted in April 29th, 2010
by in bot herder, bot herders, botnet, botnet for hire, custom malware, david anthony edwards, david edwards, Legal Issues, Malware, 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 in botnet, botnets, China, china conficker, china conficker infections, china malware, cncert, conficker, conficker b, conficker botnet, conficker virus, conficker worm, ddos, denial-of-service, dos, Malware, 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 in anti sandbox, botnet, bredolab, bredolab trojan, cutwail, drone, Facebook, facebook password, facebook security, facebook spam, hacking-facebook, Malware, password theft, pushdo, rss, sandbox, scam, scammers, Social Engineering, spam, spammers, Spammers & Scammers, 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 in botnet, botnet command, botnet command channel, botnets, Malware, Network Hacking, 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.
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Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested

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