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

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:06:26 +0000

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 AKA Alureon Rootkit Now Infecting 64-Bit Windows 7 Platform. TDL itself has been around several…

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Digital Underground Offering Cheap Botnets For Hire

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:08:05 +0000

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 becoming more multi-talented as well rather than just offering bot networks for DDoS [...]

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Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Botnet For Hire

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:14:21 +0000

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 of bots for a herder to control on their own, and assuming they [...]

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China Reports Millions Of Conficker Infections

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:25:30 +0000

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 the population of some countries!
It’s a pretty nasty piece of malware [...]

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Facebook E-mail Spam Conceals Malware Attack

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:47:07 +0000

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 spreads a nasty piece of malware called Bredolab. It’s also been observed [...]

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Twitter Being Used As Botnet Command Channel

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:59 +0000

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 normal method for controlling Botnets is via an [...]

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Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:53:59 +0000

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 address on IRC, posted his face on [...]

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