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Seen that? - Botnet hacker pleads guilty
in I got Spam?!, on October 2, 2009
... user to install software that displays ads [...] Read More Hacker Admits to Creating Botnets at I got Spam?! A Los Angeles hacker who worke...
Botnets surge through Twitter
in Sox First, on August 22, 2009
...re getting smarter and staying one step ahead. As BusinessWeek reports the prices for hiring out botnets are coming down which means just about anyone can launch a denial of service attack. Add to...
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
... sell you the toolkit, but will now host and operate it for a low, low monthly fee. Renting time on botnets has not been a terribly unusual occurence, but this is the first time I have heard of anyone...
Executives targeted in trojan attack
in The CIO Weblog, on January 12, 2009
...been widely neglected by IT security teams during the past decade as the ubiquitous but predictable botnets took up most of their resources.
There are many possible motives for this specific attack, ...
Security: on or off the radar right now?
in The CIO Weblog, on November 20, 2008
...quot;doomed" list for some time... there's nothing new really, from the increasing size of botnets to the increasing professionalism and criminality of malicious attacks. Unlike Zeltser, I...
Das Handy als Spam-Schleuder
in Handyzweinull, on 29.10.08
...eschaltet und gegen Virenangriffe nicht gesichert.
Dabei wollen die Hacker die Handys in ihre Botnets einbeziehen. In diesem Netz können Computer ferngesteuert werden und es können Angriffe auf ander...
Georgia Tech: Mobile Phones Highly Vulnerable to Hackers
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 15, 2008
...esearchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology believe mobile phones could be turned into 'botnets' and be used to bring down important websites or organisations, and with the nascent nat...
Economic Crisis May Lead to Increase in Scams
in I got Spam?!, on October 6, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Marcela Barsse The growing financial crisis may lead to an even sharper rise in malicious spam as scammers exploit the grim headlines and prey on worried consumers. Troubled bank Wachovia has already been used as the subject of a phishing spam. In fact, as t...
BusinessWeek.com attacked by hackers
in I got Spam?!, on September 17, 2008
© Lachlan Hardy
Businessweek's website has been hit by hackers. Security vendor Sophos discovered the attack last week. Hundreds of pages of the popular site have been infected with malicious Javascript that redirects users to a Russian website that attempts to download malware to their co...
Update on the Storm Botnet
in I got Spam?!, on September 13, 2008
Here is a video from Black Hat 2008 that provides an update on the infamous Storm Worm and it's botnet.
Understanding and Fighting Malware-Conclusion
in I got Spam?!, on August 30, 2008
Here's the finale! Hope you enjoyed it and learned a thing or two. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!
Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 7
in I got Spam?!, on August 27, 2008
Here's the next to last part of this outstanding video series on malware:
Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 6
in I got Spam?!, on August 26, 2008
Here is part 6 of this terrific presentation!
Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 2
in I got Spam?!, on August 16, 2008
Here is part 2 of this outstanding presentation. Watch and learn!
Understanding and Fighting Malware Part 1
in I got Spam?!, on August 15, 2008
Here's part one of an excellent presentation from David solomon on understanding and fighting malware. Here's an excerpt from the summary:
Today's Internet is fraught with peril in the form of undesirable and malicious software. These types of software continue to evolve new ways of...
Massive Fake CNN Spam Attack Continues
in I got Spam?!, on August 9, 2008
A massive new spam attack claiming to be Top 10 lists from CNN but is actually a link to a malware bonanza is getting worse. Security experts say the attackers are sending close to 11 million spams an hour. The sites hosting the malware appear to have been compromised by the attackers as many of...
Spammers Now Paying For Help Evading Filters
in I got Spam?!, on August 4, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew Dernie Spammers targeting blogs have come up with a new technique. According to an article on NetworkWorld.com , they are now paying people to post for them. The apparent theory is that comment made by an automated system are easy to spot and block, while ...
New Storm Worm Spam Delivers War Rumor
in I got Spam?!, on July 10, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Björn Kindler
The Storm Worm's latest campaign wants you to believe the U.S has invaded Iran. Its newest spam messages spread malware using the following text:
"Just now us army 's Delta Force and U.S. Air Force have invaded Iran. Approximate...
Inside Botnets
in I got Spam?!, on June 28, 2008
...Here's a great documentary from SophosLabs that examines botnets from the inside out. Very interesting stuff!
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Storm Worm Returns
in I got Spam?!, on June 21, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Clint Spencer
The Storm Worm is back folks. That's right. The monster botnet security experts and researchers thought was dead has roared back to life. In the last 24 hours it has sent out over 8 million spam messages. Anyone who falls for one of them will...
Viruses, Hackers and Trojans, Oh My!
in I got Spam?!, on May 9, 2008
...Malware is becoming big business for cybercriminals. Thanks to massive botnets like Storm and Kraken, it's easier than ever for them to spread their malicious programs to PCs all across the world....
Cybercrime primer
in Sox First, on May 3, 2008
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Phishing. E-bank theft. Spoofing. Botnets. All terms describing different forms of cybercrime. Some good details in this piece of research from Stan Kratchman, Jacob Smith and L. Murphy Smith fro...
Hackers Threaten to Attack CNN
in I got Spam?!, on April 18, 2008
...rms and media outlets will be watching closely to find out. It's quite possible one of the many botnets thriving on the net may be used to carry out such an attack. So far, CNN has not had any com...
MIT Spam Conference 2008
in I got Spam?!, on March 27, 2008
...d 28, 2008, on campus at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts , USA. Topics Include Game Theory of Botnets, Black Market Botnets, Major ISP Botnet fighting, The Malware Ecosystem, Multilayer Filterin...
Top 6 Botnets
in I got Spam?!, on February 29, 2008
... Researchers with Marshal's TRACE team have identified the top 6 botnets in terms of each's share of the world's total spam production:
Srizbi, 40 percent of spam
Rustock, 21 percent
Me...
Unseen Spam Costs Rising
in I got Spam?!, on February 26, 2008
...increasingly accessible. The larger the amount of people who have such access becomes, the faster botnets can spread their malware and spam.
ENISA polled 30 ISPs in 19 countries on how they secu...
New Botnet Overtakes Storm
in I got Spam?!, on February 3, 2008
...ossible that the individuals behind the Storm botnet are responsible for one or more of these other botnets."
Marshal now estimates the Storm worm's botnet is now responsible for just 2% of ...
Botnet Source Code For Overachievers
in I got Spam?!, on February 2, 2008
...This video is a companion to the video series I recently posted called "Malware Analysis: Botnets". This video examines botnet code line by line and examines how bot herders configure th...
Malware Analysis: Botnets
in I got Spam?!, on February 1, 2008
Botnets have become more and more of a concern lately, thanks to the Storm Worm. Storm is believed to have created the net's largest botnet, with somewhere between 5-10 million computers turned into zombies . The users of the affected systems likely have no idea they are members of this no...
Under the radar Apache worm?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 25, 2008
...e larger concern currently is over the exploit involved in compromising the webservers. Large-scale botnets are a sad but simple fact of life these days, whether they are built using spam or web-based...
Power grid susceptible to Internet based attack?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 21, 2008
... date, the largest threat to most organizations has been the desirability of using their systems as botnets. Now, more nefarious objectives may be at hand.
If you run a hospital or healthcare IT syst...
MySpace Under New Malware Attack
in I got Spam?!, on January 18, 2008
MySpace is under attack again. According to Marshal's TRACE team , it involves spam that pretends to be a legitimate invitation to join MySpace. It contains a link that redirects to a fake MySpace page. Once there the user is prompted to update adobe flash player. If they accept the d...
Top 10 IT threat predictions for 2008
in Sox First, on January 12, 2008
...est IT disaster zones. McAfee's Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008 tells us to watch out for botnets piggybacking on Storm Worm , the most versatile virus on record and which is constantly bei...
Botnets-How They Work and What They Can Do
in I got Spam?!, on December 15, 2007
Botnets are big news these days, thanks to the Storm worm, this week's massive botnet attack, and other internet security issues. Users whose computers have been infected and joined to a botnet usually never even know it. Here is an eye-opening video from Symantec . In it, a Symantec Int...
FBI's "Operation Bot Roast" Nets Eight Arrests
in I got Spam?!, on December 6, 2007
...Roast II [has revealed] the diverse and complex nature of crimes being committed through the use of botnets," said FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Security experts having been warning computer user...
Microsoft's War Room
in The CIO Weblog, on December 4, 2007
...#39;t already have their hands full with more cracked Windows boxes than they know what to do with. Botnets are less noticeable than high profile worms or server breaches, but they are far more effect...
Top 10 Internet Security Trends
in I got Spam?!, on November 17, 2007
...indows OS's before it, is constantly being patched. The other trends that made the list include botnets, phishing, web plug in vulnerabilities, and virtual machine security.
Meanwhile McAfee rele...
Hacker Admits to Creating Botnets
in I got Spam?!, on November 10, 2007
A Los Angeles hacker who worked as a information security consultant by day has admitted to writing and distributing malware to over a quarter of a million computers, creating a botnet that stole Paypal login information and allowed him to empty unsuspecting user's bank accounts.
Prosecuto...
The Malware Marketplace
in I got Spam?!, on November 6, 2007
PCWorld.com has an amazing slideshow about the disturbing new "shadow economy" that's sprung up online.It used to be that hackers, spammers, and the like were people with low morals or ethics, but high programming skills. Not anymore. Now anyone who's willing to pay a few bucks ...
MAAWG Attacks BotNets with Walled Garden Best Practices to Protect Users
in I got Spam?!, on October 6, 2007
...r discussions on this issue. Service providers are becoming more sophisticated in their approach to botnets, and they realize the benefit to both themselves and the broader online community as they ed...
Bloggers Crippled By Viral Storm
in The Search Engine Weblog, on August 31, 2007
... responsible for this spam campaign are experts at exploiting social engineering to propagate their botnets," said Bradley Anstis from security firm Marshal . According to the report, the s...
Cyberwar um Tallin
in Das Open Source Weblog, on 30.05.07
... gibt es mindestens einen Dritten, der die moderne Infrastruktur ( gekaperte Rechner zu Botnets verbunden ) nutzt, um Konflikte zu schüren. Ein einbruch in einen Serverpool Russlands und schon ...
Bots growing like mad
in I got Spam?!, on March 26, 2007
... Security Focus warns that the number of botnets has almost tripled in the last couple of weeks:
"The weekly tally of bot-infected PCs tracked by the group rose to nearly 1.2 million this we...
Mapping spam
in I got Spam?!, on March 22, 2007
...ns mean more raw material for spammers. Criminals link hijacked personal computers together to form botnets-clusters of infected PCs that spammers can control from anywhere in the world."
Which ...
After e-mail spam for your inbox here is SPIT for VoIP
in The VoIP Weblog, on February 13, 2007
...world when compared to human generated e-mails. It's also quite easy to generate SPIT since the botnets need to be tweaked slightly for generating VoIP spams which are thousand times cheaper when ...
DEMOfall'06 sixth company presentation session incl. Trend Micro, Data Security Systems, MyPW, PrefPass, Retrevo, Imaginestics
in TJ's Weblog, on September 27, 2006
...dMicro presents ICSS a new solution for ISPs that helps them to monitor their traffic to get rid of botnets.
A rather complex topic that is seemingly difficult to present.
Data security systems ...
Sarbanes-Oxley and Inside Jobs
in Sox First, on February 15, 2006
... be a big shift in cybercrime this year . Along with mobile devices, instant messaging from botnets, blogging-led security leaks, insider attacks will be more of a threat as attacks shift from...
Botnets, Zombies and Botherds - How DDoS Attacks Work
in The Gambling Weblog, on December 15, 2004
...shed an excellent article explaining how DDos attacks are created.
The online mafia
So how do botnets work? A bot is a hidden remote-control program loaded on to your computer without your conse...