Category Archives: DDoS Criminals

Microsoft moves to disable botnet

Microsoft has undertaken a global operation to disrupt a huge criminal botnet believed to be responsible for millions of pounds in theft.

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Microsoft moves to disable botnet

New P2P botnet soon available for sale

The development of a new botnet that will rely on a decentralized architecture based on P2P technology is nearing completion and will soon be offered for sale for a sum of $8000 on a number of undergr…

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New P2P botnet soon available for sale

New Zeus/SpyEye makes bots function as C&C servers

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. …

The new and improved Kelihos botnet

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

Update on the Kelihos botnet

Reports that the Kelihos botnet is back online and that its original operators are again trying to take over its reigns have been premature, says Microsoft. “Contrary to some reports, Kaspersky …

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Update on the Kelihos botnet

Kelihos botnet rises up again

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. …

Detecting the DNS Changer malware

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

Mobile pickpocketing and botnets will rise

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

http://www.spamfighter.com/News-17155-Data-finds-over-1-m-UK-Home-PCs-Belonging-to-Botnets.htm

Data finds over 1 m UK Home PCs Belonging to Botnets The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that a Dutch security researchers’ group trying to determine methods by which compromising of home PCs can be lessened from getting criminally used, recently, discovered that crime botnets seized over 1m home computers in UK.

DoS attack rocks Palestine, cuts phones, internet

Large denial of service attacks have rocked Palestinian severing internet service to the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Communications Minister Mashur Abu Daqqa told reporters the attacks originated from locations “all over the world … using mirror servers.” Up to a million packets a second had hit Palestine’s incumbent telephone company PalTel, local media said