A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that functioned as a distributed p…
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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet
Potentially risks thousands of years in jail An anonymous researcher has taken an unorthodox approach to achieve the dream of mapping out the entire remaining IPv4 internet – and in doing so broken enough laws around the world to potentially put him or her behind bars for thousands of years.…
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Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map
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
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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Helping ISPs defend customers against bot infections
Insecure PHP web apps powering zombie DDoS assault Hackers who claimed responsibility for a series of denial of service attacks against US banks in September have warned the US they plan to renew their assault shortly.…
Hint: Sometimes gamer tags give the game away Analysis of IRC logs and open source intelligence played a key role in the successful police prosecution that led up the conviction of a member of Anonymous for conspiracy to launch denial of service attacks against PayPal and other firms.…
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UK cops: How we sniffed out convicted AnonOps admin ‘Nerdo’
Ad-men and G-men form potent globo force The FBI have said that with the help of Facebook, they’ve taken down an international crime gang who went on an $850m botnet spree.…
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Feds smash international cybercrime ring with Power of Facebook
Anonymous is mostly known for their real-life and online protests, DDoS attacks, and shaming of businesses and government organizations by publicly releasing confidential data stolen from their server…
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Anonymous hacks police forum, sends emails to police officers
Following the settling of the Nitol botnet lawsuit earlier this month, Microsoft has announced on Friday that it has reached a settlement with Russian software programmer Andrey N. Sabelnikov, who was…
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Microsoft concludes Russian programmer didn't operate Kelihos botnet
Hacktivists blamed for online banking blackout Updated HSBC has blamed a denial of service attack for the downtime of many of its websites worldwide on Thursday night.…
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HSBC websites fell in DDoS attack last night, bank admits