Botnet

Alleged SpyEye Botmaster Extradited To US

Man sent to US from Bangkok where he was arrested in January

12 years ago

Boston Marathon Tragedy Spurs Botnet Spam Campaigns

The Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer explosion are being used by two large botnets

12 years ago

Cutwail Botnet Targets Android Users Via Spam

Attackers shifting to traditional PC tactics in bid to pilfer data from Android owners

12 years ago

‘Chameleon’ Botnet Pilfers Millions From Advertisers

Brit researchers claim Chameleon has made its owners at least $6.2bn

12 years ago

Ramnit Botnet Boosts Management Features

The Ramnit botnet has been retrofitted to focus on better management of infected computers and more effective theft of financial…

12 years ago

Andromeda Botnet Returns With Souped-Up Stealth Skills

Malware drops in a modular fashion making it harder for security products to pick it up

12 years ago

Study: Bot Infections Common On Household Computers

One in 14 North American households had a computer compromised by a bot infection in 2012, according to Kindsight

12 years ago

Polish Officials Move To Decapitate Virut Botnet

Botnet sees some of its command and control infrastructure compromised by CERT Polska

12 years ago

McAfee: Hacker ‘Project Blitzkrieg’ Poses Real Threat

A call for botnet operators to collaborate on attacking 30 US financial institutions appears to be a 'credible threat' after…

12 years ago

SOCA Makes Arrest In £527m Butterfly Botnet Investigation

FBI, SOCA and Facebook looking to bring Yahos malware pushers down

12 years ago

Microsoft Gives Up Ghost On Finding Kelihos Botnet Masters

This is the way the case ends: not with a bang but a whimper

12 years ago

Microsoft Finds Nitol Botnet Malware On PCs In Chinese Supply Chain

Microsoft finds Nitol in brand new Chinese PCs and seizes domain to kill it off

12 years ago

Botnet Creator Who Ensnared 72,000 Machines Gets 30 Months

Bot herder with an alleged history of dirty dealing gets sent down

12 years ago

Alleged Mariposa Botnet Mastermind On Trial

Mariposa suspect is on trial, whilst Spanish suspects await their own hearings, TechWeekEurope understands

12 years ago

Bank-Theft Botnet Gameover Infects 700,000 Systems

A bank-theft botnet by the name of Gameover has infected 675,000 systems, many at Fortune 500 companies

12 years ago

Grum Botnet Officially Decapitated

The Grum botnet is killed off, meaning we can expect a big dip in spam

12 years ago

Yahoo Android App Lets Attackers Send Spam

Yahoo says a flaw in its Android Mail app affects a limited number of users

12 years ago

Dutch Law Begins Dismantling Grum Spam Botnet

The world's third largest source of spam could soon be history

12 years ago

Google Dismisses Android Botnet Reports

Reports of an Android botnet are false, says Google, but is it in denial?

12 years ago

Android Rootkit Created (And Spam Botnet Is Reported)

Two worries for Android security: a nasty rootkit is created in the lab, while a botnet may have been spotted

12 years ago

Microsoft Identifies Zeus Botnet Suspects

Microsoft said it has positively identified two members of the Zeus botnet crime ring - but both are already serving…

12 years ago

Flashback Crooks Fluffed Money Making Scheme

Flashback operators were unable to make much money from the hundreds of thousands of Macs they had control of

13 years ago

Flashback Intercepted Google Searches To Make $10k A Day

Flashback made cyber crooks a tonne of money in a Google-tracking, ad-clicking scheme

13 years ago

Another Mac APT Attack Spotted

The SabPub APT is still active and is going after Mac machines

13 years ago

Zeus Bots Remain Active Despite Microsoft Takedown

A few Zeus botnets reportedly remain active despite Microsoft closing down the bulk of them last month

13 years ago

Kelihos II Crippled by Kaspersky and Co

The crooks running the second version of the Kelihos botnet abandon ship after their operation is sinkholed

13 years ago

Microsoft Raids Hit Zeus Botnets

Operation b71 has brought down two major Zeus botnets but Microsoft warns that the Trojan is not dead

13 years ago

Kelihos Botnet Back From The Grave

A new version of the Kelihos botnet is gaining momentum despite Microsoft's efforts to uproot it last year

13 years ago

Anonymous Members Hit By Zeus Botnet Scam

Symantec has highlighted a scam that tricked Anonymous users into infecting themselves with the Zeus Trojan

13 years ago

Waledac Botnet Returns With Password-Stealing Capabilities

More than a year after Microsoft shut down the Waledac botnet, it has reawakened with far more dangerous capabilities

13 years ago