| Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet 6 hours ago by admin A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world’s spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye. After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the FireEye employees last week ... AFKnews - afknews.com |
| New Koobface Component Imitates Facebook User 13 hours ago by Jonell Baltazar Advanced Threats Researcher The Koobface botnet has pushed out a new component that automates the following routines: Registering a Facebook account Confirming an email address in Gmail to activate the registered Facebook account Joining random Facebook groups Adding Facebook friends Posting messages to Facebook friends’ walls ... TrendLabs | Malware Blog - ... - blog.trendmicro.com ·  9 references |
| Gaming Botnet Bleeds Over To The Enterprise 14 hours ago by Guest Posts Guest editorial by Gunter Ollmann Botnets come in all shapes and sizes and if you can’t find one that fits your unique purposes off-the-rack, it’s trivial to create a custom one using a do-it-yourself construction kit – which helps to explain the diversity we’re seeing within the enterprise. In gene ... threatpost - The First ... - threatpost.com/en_us/frontpage |
| Facebook, MySpace users hit by cyber attacks 23 hours ago by DISC Image by sitmonkeysupreme via Flickr NZ HERALD reported that Facebook users - already being targeted in a malware campaign - are now under threat from a phishing scam. Security specialists Symantec... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] DISC Infosec blog - blog.deurainfosec.com · Rank: 195,971 · 2 references |
| Facebook, MySpace users hit by cyber attacks 23 hours ago by DISC Image by sitmonkeysupreme via Flickr NZ HERALD reported that Facebook users - already being targeted in a malware campaign - are now under threat from a phishing scam. Security specialists Symantec... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] DISC Infosec blog - blog.deurainfosec.com · Rank: 119,981 · 13 references |
