The Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer explosion are being used by two large botnets
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The Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer explosion are being used by two large botnets
Attackers shifting to traditional PC tactics in bid to pilfer data from Android owners
Brit researchers claim Chameleon has made its owners at least $6.2bn
The Ramnit botnet has been retrofitted to focus on better management of infected computers and more effective theft of financial credentials, according to Microsoft
Malware drops in a modular fashion making it harder for security products to pick it up
One in 14 North American households had a computer compromised by a bot infection in 2012, according to Kindsight
Botnet sees some of its command and control infrastructure compromised by CERT Polska
A call for botnet operators to collaborate on attacking 30 US financial institutions appears to be a 'credible threat' after all, according to security firm McAfee
FBI, SOCA and Facebook looking to bring Yahos malware pushers down
This is the way the case ends: not with a bang but a whimper
Microsoft finds Nitol in brand new Chinese PCs and seizes domain to kill it off
Bot herder with an alleged history of dirty dealing gets sent down
Mariposa suspect is on trial, whilst Spanish suspects await their own hearings, TechWeekEurope understands
A bank-theft botnet by the name of Gameover has infected 675,000 systems, many at Fortune 500 companies
The Grum botnet is killed off, meaning we can expect a big dip in spam
Yahoo says a flaw in its Android Mail app affects a limited number of users
The world's third largest source of spam could soon be history
Reports of an Android botnet are false, says Google, but is it in denial?
Two worries for Android security: a nasty rootkit is created in the lab, while a botnet may have been spotted
Microsoft said it has positively identified two members of the Zeus botnet crime ring - but both are already serving time in prison
Flashback operators were unable to make much money from the hundreds of thousands of Macs they had control of
Flashback made cyber crooks a tonne of money in a Google-tracking, ad-clicking scheme
The SabPub APT is still active and is going after Mac machines
A few Zeus botnets reportedly remain active despite Microsoft closing down the bulk of them last month
The crooks running the second version of the Kelihos botnet abandon ship after their operation is sinkholed
Operation b71 has brought down two major Zeus botnets but Microsoft warns that the Trojan is not dead
A new version of the Kelihos botnet is gaining momentum despite Microsoft's efforts to uproot it last year
Symantec has highlighted a scam that tricked Anonymous users into infecting themselves with the Zeus Trojan
More than a year after Microsoft shut down the Waledac botnet, it has reawakened with far more dangerous capabilities
Criminals have created a network of infected Android devices that could be netting millions per year, researchers say