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Conficker data highlights infected networks
16 hours ago
by carrumba
On Wednesday, the ShadowServer Foundation took the wraps off a revamped statistics page, showing how far the three main variants of Conficker have spread and the degree to which the world’s networks are infected. More than 12,000 networks, as represented by their autonomous system numbers (ASNs), sh ...
Megapanzer - megapanzer.com · Rank: 28,256 ·  52 references
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Zeus Botnet Kit Evolves
20 hours ago
by aex
Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research for anti-botnet specialists Damballa, highlighted recent updates to the widespread Zeus botnet kit that are keeping the threat alive and well and growing despite the fact that it’s been around for a while now. Zeus remains one of the most popular and varied ...
./h43x - h43x.com
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FIESTA botnet dominance at Vietnam and India
1 day ago
by secur065web
Recently found one of the believed is FIESTA control panel kits showed the victims mainly from Vietnam and India, although the scale of infected systems small compare to other Zeus, Rustock and etc. Strongly believed that this control panel kits just tip of iceberg within "botnet" families. From fig ...
Web Security Weblog - web2secure.com · Rank: 98,089 · 1 reference
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Project Honey Pot Receives Its Billionth Spam Message
1 day ago
by darren
Project Honey Pot is a side project by Unspam Technologies, and “gathers statistics on Internet robots and the spammers who sometimes use them to steal email addresses”. As I understand it, they work with website publishers to serve up fake, unique email addresses on web pages. Spammers’ bots discov ...
DarrenBarefoot.com - darrenbarefoot.com · Rank: 11,995 · 207 references
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Decrypting Pushdo Botnet Messages
1 day ago
by DMacDonald
While looking at some Pushdo botnet messages recently, I noticed a repeating pattern in the data. Here is an example, taken from an area where the pattern is most obvious: 0340 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 53 63 cc 2b .c.i.c.i.c.iSc.+ 0350 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 .c.i. ...
Fortinet FortiGuard Blog - blog.fortinet.com · Rank: 116,595 · 10 references
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Botnet Herders Teaming Up To Distribute Trojan
1 day ago
by Sue Walsh
Researchers say the groups behind two botnets have teamed up to distribute malware. The bot herders running the Avalanche and ZBot botnets are now working together to promote notorious banking Trojan Zeus. The Zbot botnet is known for its massive spam campaigns that link to Zeus and Avalanche is kno ...
Anti spam and general ... - allspammedup.com · Rank: 78,770 · 59 references
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Zeus botnet doet Windows 7 en IPv6
1 day ago
by ovis
Zeus is de populairste bouwdoos voor het opzetten van een eigen botnet en door de moordende concurrentie verschijnen er steeds nieuwe versies, die nu ook Windows 7 en Vista en IPv6 adressen ondersteunen. De Zeus malware toolkit kost tussen de 275 en 500 euro, maar is vaak een paar maanden later via ...
OVIS security Blog - ovis1964.wordpress.com
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Botnets, Worms, and “Open” Clouds: Can Enterprise-Class Clouds Be Far ...
2 days ago
by Lori MacVittie
Cloud computing environments are just as suited to illegitimate use as legitimate use. Do providers need a way to separate the chaff from the wheat to reassure enterprise-class customers that they’re doing everything they can to eliminate the hijacking of cloud computing resources for nefarious purp ...
Lori MacVittie - devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/Default.aspx · Rank: 18,098 · 187 references
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