The DDoS attacks mounted against Spamhaus over a week ago have escalated in the last few days, reaching a never previously experienced level of some 300 gigabits per second at peak hours, says Akamai.
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Grum botnet makes a comeback
Last year's takedown of the Grum botnet was one the most fascinating ones so far, as it triggered a quick response from the botherders who tried to derail law enforcement efforts by setting up new C&C…
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Massive Chameleon botnet steals $6M per month from advertisers
Web traffic analytics firm spider.io has discovered a massive botnet that emulates human visitors in order to earn its master(s) over $6 million per month from online advertisers. Dubbed Chameleo…
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Massive Chameleon botnet steals $6M per month from advertisers
Old and new botnets behind spam resurgence
Even when they have other capabilities, botnets are primarily used to send out malicious messages, since that is the easiest – not to mention the least risky – way for botmasters to earn money. T…
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Old and new botnets behind spam resurgence
Helping ISPs defend customers against bot infections
At RSA Conference 2013 Kindsight announced the Kindsight Botnet Security service to help Internet service providers detect botnet activity in the network and protect subscribers against bot infections…
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Malicious URLs eclipsing botnets as malware distribution leader
McAfee Labs revealed that sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, while an emerging set of ne…
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25% of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based
Twenty-five percent of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to Gartner. During such incidents, attackers send out targeted commands to a…
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Antibot: Network-based botnet removal tool
Botnets are flourishing with new packaging, new methods and new business models. ZeroAccess, the world’s fastest-growing botnet, infected millions of computers in 2012, using them to commit large-scal…
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Antibot: Network-based botnet removal tool
Week in review: Critical Flash update, Bamital botnet takedown, and children turning into malware developers
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews, articles and interviews: Federated single sign-on to dominate by 2016 A well-executed single sign-on (SSO) strategy redu…
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Week in review: Critical Flash update, Bamital botnet takedown, and children turning into malware developers
Massive Bamital click-fraud botnet shut down
Symantec and Microsoft have teamed up to take down the Bamital botnet, and are currently in the process of warning users infected with the Trojan on how to remove it from their computers. “Bamital …