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InternetNews
February 18, 2010 |
Kneber Botnet Pierces 2,500 Organizations So-called 'Kneber' botnet collects log-in credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and e-mail systems to break into accounts and steal corporate and government data at an astonishing pace.   |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 18, 2010
Penny Crosman |
Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010 |
Breaching the Walls Dealing with cyber-attacks costs companies and governments billions of dollars a year and threatens national and economic security. Here are some recent incidents. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2009
Richard Adhikari |
Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Researchers Seize Botnet, Peer Into Net's Dark Side For 10 days, a UCSB team monitored a botnet known for stealing credit card data and bank account credentials. |
National Defense
September 2009
Grace V. Jean |
In The Fight Against Cybercrime, Weapons Have Short Shelf Lives Even the latest innovations to protect U.S. networks are not enough to counter cybercrimes. |
Bank Technology News
December 2010
Michael Sisk |
Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments |
InternetNews
March 3, 2010 |
Mariposa Hackers Busted in Giant Botnet Scam Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2010
Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight. |
InternetNews
March 4, 2010 |
Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Symantec Warns: Mac Botnet Could Strike Again Symantec, the company that discovered the first Macintosh worm in 1998, announced the discovery of the first Macintosh botnet. |
InternetNews
September 9, 2009 |
IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour. |
InternetNews
March 3, 2010 |
Microsoft Calls for Infected PC Quarantine At RSA, Microsoft's Scott Charney compares infected PCs' spamming to secondhand smoke - and suggests they also be banned from the Net. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Cisco Expands Security to the Cloud Cisco claims a 100 percent improvement for its intrusion prevention system - but you still need a firewall. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Ben Elgin |
Click Fraud's Next Frontier If you place an advertisement on Google or Yahoo!, and you're paying the search giants each time somebody clicks, it would be nice to know that the clicker is a human being who might actually purchase your product. Unfortunately, there are no such assurances. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week. |
