Herpes bot master outed 

Herpes bot master outed

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 24 May 2012 7:57 PM
Lax identity protection leads to downfall.
Jericho botnet hits financial web sites 

Jericho botnet hits financial web sites

In Applications - By SC Staff, 9 May 2012 7:08 AM
Targets passwords and login credentials used at 100 financial institutions.
South Africa deploys Aussie iCode  

South Africa deploys Aussie iCode

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 8 May 2012 4:56 PM
Anti-botnet code up for review next month.
Botmaster offers fraud service for noobs 

Botmaster offers fraud service for noobs

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 3 May 2012 2:30 PM
Includes live support and custom script injection.
Mac Flashback hijacked $10k a day: Symantec 

Mac Flashback hijacked $10k a day: Symantec

In Applications - 2 May 2012 11:45 AM
Click-fraud scheme about the revenue.
Girls hawk DDoS service on YouTube 

Girls hawk DDoS service on YouTube

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 26 April 2012 3:18 PM
Big business pay hacker to take down rivals.
140000 Flashback-infected computers remain 

140000 Flashback-infected computers remain

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 19 April 2012 6:49 AM
About 75 per cent of Macs freed from botnet slavery.
33,000 Australian Macs are botnet slaves 

33,000 Australian Macs are botnet slaves

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 5 April 2012 3:44 PM
So you thought you were safe?
Kelihos lives on thanks to Facebook trojan 

Kelihos lives on thanks to Facebook trojan

In Applications - By Marcos Colon, 2 April 2012 12:30 PM
After being "sinkholed," the Kelihos.B botnet is spreading through social networking sites.
DIY satirical Sality takedown posted to Full Disclosure 

DIY satirical Sality takedown posted to Full Disclosure

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 29 March 2012 5:39 PM
Don't try this at home.
US Govt 'iCode' code of conduct approved 

US Govt 'iCode' code of conduct approved

In Networks - By Marcos Colon, 29 March 2012 9:26 AM
The Anti-Bot Code of Conduct gives ISPs a blueprint to manage botnet threats.
Monster Kelihos botnet slain 

Monster Kelihos botnet slain

In Networks - By Marcos Colon, 29 March 2012 9:26 AM
Security organisations have teamed up and killed an embodiment of the Kelihos botnet.
Microsoft bests bank-busting botnet  

Microsoft bests bank-busting botnet

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 27 March 2012 2:25 PM
Zeus command and control knocked out.
Poisoned DoS tool infects Anonymous 

Poisoned DoS tool infects Anonymous

In Applications - 5 March 2012 3:46 PM
Trojan packed into denial-of-service tool.
ISPs urged to back secure routing standards 

ISPs urged to back secure routing standards

In Networks - By Ry Crozier, 24 February 2012 11:24 AM
Cut traffic misdirection.
New variant of Waledac botnet detected  

New variant of Waledac botnet detected

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 22 February 2012 8:21 AM
After the original was taken down two years ago.
Crims make $3 million a year off Android botnet 

Crims make $3 million a year off Android botnet

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 12 February 2012 10:03 PM
Uni researcher finds world's biggest Android botnet.
Accused Kelihos botmaster denies allegations 

Accused Kelihos botmaster denies allegations

In Networks - By Dan Kaplan, 31 January 2012 2:26 PM
Returns to Russia.
Ex-anti-virus tech flogged MacDefender malware 

Ex-anti-virus tech flogged MacDefender malware

In Networks - By Dan Raywood, 25 January 2012 6:35 AM
Botnet bloodbath continues.
Government shuns ethical hacker safeguards 

Government shuns ethical hacker safeguards

In Hackers - By Darren Pauli, 25 November 2011 3:46 AM
Rejection of industry submissions was "disgusting".
White hats bust history's biggest botnet 

White hats bust history's biggest botnet

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 14 November 2011 4:10 PM
Covert intel ops conducted on mailing lists.
Dumb brute force attacks slowing down, dying off 

Dumb brute force attacks slowing down, dying off

In Cloud - By Darren Pauli, 7 November 2011 4:58 PM
Hail Mary, it’s happening again.
Innocent: Microsoft drops botnet suit 

Innocent: Microsoft drops botnet suit

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 27 October 2011 12:42 PM
Asks former defendant for help.
Malware victim loses net connection to iCode 

Malware victim loses net connection to iCode

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 30 September 2011 4:45 PM
Telco cuts woman's connection after 42 warnings.
Microsoft kills botnet, names mastermind 

Microsoft kills botnet, names mastermind

In Networks - By Angela Moscaritolo, 28 September 2011 10:16 AM
41,000 computers freed in botnet take-down.
Android bot army grows 

Android bot army grows

In Applications - By Angela Moscaritolo, 11 September 2011 10:57 PM
Still dwarfed by PC botnets.
CheckPoint boss knocks security mergers 

CheckPoint boss knocks security mergers

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 7 September 2011 1:59 PM
Botnet detection tool to be released this year.
Bitcoin botnet mines over Twitter  

Bitcoin botnet mines over Twitter

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 4 August 2011 3:40 AM
But renting bots is more profitable.
Microsoft offers $235K bounty on Rustock masterminds 

Microsoft offers $235K bounty on Rustock masterminds

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 19 July 2011 10:02 AM
Redmond determined to crush world's biggest botnet.
Legacy of monster botnet fading 

Legacy of monster botnet fading

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 6 July 2011 9:21 PM
More than half of Rustock-infected machines have been cleaned, but 100,000 computers remain in India.
Butterfly botnet morph is bigger, badder than Mariposa 

Butterfly botnet morph is bigger, badder than Mariposa

In Applications - By Dan Raywood, 30 June 2011 10:02 PM
Botnet grows new wings.
Microsoft names Rustock botnet leader suspects 

Microsoft names Rustock botnet leader suspects

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 3 June 2011 2:29 PM
One hoped to work for Google.
Android DreamDroid two: rise of laced apps 

Android DreamDroid two: rise of laced apps

In Applications - By Liam Tung, 1 June 2011 10:31 AM
DreamDroid Light hits up to 130,000.
Call for banks to blacklist spammers 

Call for banks to blacklist spammers

In Messaging - By Darren Pauli, 31 May 2011 9:27 AM
Experts argue that industry should take point on anti-spam efforts.
Copycat antivirus site serves malware 

Copycat antivirus site serves malware

In Hackers - By SC Australia Staff, 24 May 2011 3:51 PM
A malicious website based on the design of Virustotal is recuiting botnet zombies.
FBI details difficulties defanging Coreflood botnet  

FBI details difficulties defanging Coreflood botnet

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 28 April 2011 11:20 AM
IP lists en route to foreign authorities.
Coreflood takedown may lead to trouble 

Coreflood takedown may lead to trouble

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 18 April 2011 10:34 AM
Was this the right precedent?
FBI hijacks Coreflood botnet 

FBI hijacks Coreflood botnet

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 14 April 2011 9:44 AM
Swaps command servers with their own.
Microsoft to crack open Rustock's servers 

Microsoft to crack open Rustock's servers

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 11 April 2011 8:42 AM
1.7 million IP addresses still calling home.
Bagle to succeed Rustock as spam king? 

Bagle to succeed Rustock as spam king?

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 30 March 2011 9:45 AM
There may be a new botnet spamming king in town in the form of Bagle.
Analysis: Life after Rustock 

Analysis: Life after Rustock

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 28 March 2011 9:51 AM
Is this the end of spam as we know it?
Shares pump-and-dump alleged scammer arrested 

Shares pump-and-dump alleged scammer arrested

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 23 March 2011 10:28 AM
Beware emails touting stocks that seem too good to be true.
Hospital hacker jailed for nine years over malware injection 

Hospital hacker jailed for nine years over malware injection

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 22 March 2011 1:49 PM
Guard used his position to infect sensitive PCs in readiness for DDoS.
Microsoft details Rustock botnet takedown 

Microsoft details Rustock botnet takedown

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 21 March 2011 12:08 PM
A million bots at a loose end, still infected.
Mega-botnet Rustock stops spamming 

Mega-botnet Rustock stops spamming

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 18 March 2011 10:55 AM
Rustock, the once dominant spam botnet, seems to have been taken out of contention.
What Stuxnet means for the process industry 

What Stuxnet means for the process industry

In Hackers - By Eddy Willems, security evangelist, G Data Software, 10 February 2011 12:32 PM
Governments and process-control firms must work together to prevent sophisticated malware from spreading.
Zeus spreads giant arms wider 

Zeus spreads giant arms wider

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 7 February 2011 12:50 PM
More websites host Zeus variants.
Waledac botnet operators amass 500,000 email credentials 

Waledac botnet operators amass 500,000 email credentials

In Web/client - By Angela Moscaritolo, 3 February 2011 2:12 PM
Waledac botnet was rebuilt from scratch and is on the attack again.
Waledac botnet wakes up in 2011 with new run of pharmaceutical spam 

Waledac botnet wakes up in 2011 with new run of pharmaceutical spam

In Hackers - By Dan Raywood, 17 January 2011 12:33 PM
Cybercriminals return from break.
Rustock botnet back in action 

Rustock botnet back in action

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 13 January 2011 1:37 PM
Poised to return to pre-Christmas spam output levels.
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