The latest build of the Zeus/SpyEye malware shows a change that could very well hamper the security researchers' ability to take down the botnets using it and to find out the criminals behind them. …
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New Zeus/SpyEye makes bots function as C&C servers
Akamai Technologies introduced Akamai Kona Site Defender, a service designed to protect the brand value of companies by shielding their web sites, applications and associated data in the face of attac…
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Akamai protects enterprises from DDoS and application security attacks
As announced by Kaspersky Lab researchers and confirmed by Microsoft, the C&C and backup infrastructure of the original Kelihos/Hlux botnet is still down after their joint action that resulted in its …
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The new and improved Kelihos botnet
A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China's two largest mobile carriers into a botnet numbering hundreds of thousands of …
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Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices
Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems usually come in small packages…
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Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones
Kelihos – the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead – is back and working. …
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Kelihos botnet rises up again
January marked half-time for the folks at the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) who are now running the DNS servers originally used in the Rove botnet. Ever since a multi-national task force dismantled…
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Detecting the DNS Changer malware
The slew of hacks, leaks of credit card information, DDoS attacks and defacements executed by Arab and Israeli hackers that transferred part of the longstanding, real world conflict to the Internet ha…
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Hacker allegedly leaks 100K Facebook account credentials of Arab users
Mobile threats are on the rise — Lookout estimates that mobile threats successfully stole more than one million dollars from Android users in 2011. In 2012, Lookout predicts that the criminal business…
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Mobile pickpocketing and botnets will rise
Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently taken off line, 64-bit roo…
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2012 network security trends