Chinese-built botnets full of bugs 

Chinese-built botnets full of bugs

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 6 October 2011 3:37 PM
Botnets borrow code, and bugs too.
Botnets go search crazy 

Botnets go search crazy

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 17 August 2011 12:23 PM
Hundreds of searches found to use paging parameter queries.
Humans replace machines in future botnets 

Humans replace machines in future botnets

In Hackers - By Darren Pauli, 19 July 2011 5:10 PM
Human nodes outsmart conventional defences.
Analysis: Offensive action against botnets 

Analysis: Offensive action against botnets

In Networks - By David LaMacchia and Jamie Tomasello, Cloudmark, 20 May 2011 11:19 AM
Does a botnet takedown set questionable precedents or is it a viable way to cleanse compromised computers?
Botnets to 'hide in plain view' in 2011 

Botnets to 'hide in plain view' in 2011

In Hackers - By Jennifer Scott, 8 December 2010 9:24 AM
Botnets will hide within files rather than coming through nasty downloads.
Iranian Cyber Arms shifts efforts toward malware, botnets 

Iranian Cyber Arms shifts efforts toward malware, botnets

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 26 October 2010 2:06 PM
Twitter hackers building botnet.
Botnets for hire at $10 an hour 

Botnets for hire at $10 an hour

In Hackers - 25 May 2010 1:24 PM
Security firm VeriSign finds control of attack systems is being dangerouslydemocratised.
Grum and Rustock botnets drive spam to new levels 

Grum and Rustock botnets drive spam to new levels

In Hackers - By Shaun Nichols, 2 March 2010 1:27 PM
Overall junk email levels rose five per cent in February.
Stronger botnets and increased spam detections in 2009 

Stronger botnets and increased spam detections in 2009

In Hackers - By Dan Raywood, 9 December 2009 12:06 PM
Cybercriminals learn lessons from McColo shutdown.
Standard offers best practices for ISPs to fight botnets 

Standard offers best practices for ISPs to fight botnets

In Hackers - By Chuck Miller, 18 September 2009 9:54 AM
A group charged with developing and promoting internet standards has published a new draft standard calling for measures that internet service providers can use to defeat botnets.
MessageLabs spots resilient new breed of botnets 

MessageLabs spots resilient new breed of botnets

In Hackers - By Phil Muncaster, 26 August 2009 10:05 AM
Latest examples can recover from shut down in just 48 hours.
Worm turns Linux routers into botnet 

Worm turns Linux routers into botnet

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 25 March 2009 2:57 PM
Researchers are warming of a new worm that targets DSL routers running a distribution of Linux.
Webscraping allows hackers to hit online gambling sites with botnets 

Webscraping allows hackers to hit online gambling sites with botnets

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 5 February 2009 11:26 AM
Online gambling sites are being hit by hackers who are using botnets that fix the odds to ensure large winnings.
AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime 

AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime

In Hackers - 10 December 2008 8:50 PM
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Telstra will increase cooperative efforts to reduce hi-tech crimes like identity fraud, phishing, botnet networks and attacks on public ...
Botnets crawl back after McColo shutdown 

Botnets crawl back after McColo shutdown

In Hackers - 8 December 2008 12:45 PM
Mega-D botnet creators have set up new command and control servers and re-established their connections.
Spam climbing back up after botnets return online 

Spam climbing back up after botnets return online

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 27 November 2008 10:30 AM
The amount of unwanted email is again surging after a host of botnets -- led by the high-powered Srizbi network of compromised machines -- have reconnected to internet service ...
Mobile phones are vulnerable to botnets 

Mobile phones are vulnerable to botnets

In Web/client - By Aharon Etengoff, 16 October 2008 9:52 AM
Security researchers at Georgia Tech have determined that mobile phones are vulnerable to hacking attacks.
MySpace spam seeks botnets 

MySpace spam seeks botnets

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 18 January 2008 4:07 PM
Researchers at Marshal, an internet security firm, are tracking a new spam campaign in which recipients receive messages inviting them to join MySpace – but a click on the link ...
Georgia Tech researchers break down botnets 

Georgia Tech researchers break down botnets

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 18 December 2007 9:33 AM
Warning that botnets are a "dynamic, evolving threat," researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed the classification of botnet structures to provide an ...
Cyber-criminals turn to smaller botnets 

Cyber-criminals turn to smaller botnets

In Web/client - By Iain Thomson, 28 September 2007 9:46 AM
Size counts in online crime.
Botnets leapfrog DDoS attacks as top ISP threat 

Botnets leapfrog DDoS attacks as top ISP threat

In Web/client - By Fiona Raisbeck, 19 September 2007 12:26 AM
For the first time botnets have leapfrogged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as the top operational threat to internet service providers (ISPs), new figures suggest.
FBI tackles botnets and cybercrime 

FBI tackles botnets and cybercrime

In Hackers - By Fiona Raisbeck, 15 June 2007 10:18 AM
The US Department of Justice and the FBI have identified over one million compromised IP addresses as part of an ongoing cybercrime operation.
Evil Trojan twins control most of world's botnets 

Evil Trojan twins control most of world's botnets

In Applications - By Clement James, 13 April 2007 1:57 PM
Sdbot and Gaobot malware groups responsible for 80 percent of botnets.
Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers 

Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers

In Web/client - By Robert Jaques, 8 February 2007 10:29 AM
Sustained attack launched last night.
Botnets exploit patched Symantec stack overflow flaw 

Botnets exploit patched Symantec stack overflow flaw

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 29 November 2006 9:15 AM
Security researchers today warned of a significant worm attack exploiting an old target, a privilege-escalation flaw in Symantec's Client Security and AntiVirus Corporate ...
McAfee warns botnets could threaten infrastructure 

McAfee warns botnets could threaten infrastructure

In Web/client - By Ericka Chickowski, 24 October 2006 6:20 PM
Researchers with McAfee released a whitepaper today that claims botnets could feasibly threaten most countries' infrastructures.
Experts expose botnets controlling 150K PCs  

Experts expose botnets controlling 150K PCs

By William Eazel, 17 March 2006 10:05 AM
Acting on an anonymous tip, security researchers have uncovered two global botnets collectively controlling up to 150,000 compromised computers.
Botnets used as tool for range of attacks 

Botnets used as tool for range of attacks

By Marcia Savage, 15 March 2005 5:34 PM
Botnets, networks of compromised computers that can be remotely controlled by attackers, are used for many types of attacks, including identity theft, according to a recent ...
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