botnet

When Microsoft and various law enforcement agencies around the world disrupted the ZeroAccess botnet at the beginning of December, they did not expect to fully eliminate it. …

A blended DDoS botnet consisting of both Windows and Linux machines has been detected by researchers working with the Polish CERT. The botnet is exclusively dedicated to …

A singular new botnet composed of over 12,500 infected computers has been used by its masters to effectively crowdsource the search for websites vulnerable to SQL injection …

The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit announced it has successfully disrupted a rampant botnet in collaboration with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the Federal …

Researchers from Arbor Networks have spotted an active Point of Sale (PoS) compromise campaign using the Dexter malware or variants of it, aimed at stealing credit and debit …

Stefano Zanero is an Assistant Professor at Politechnico di Milano, where he focuses on systems security. Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build …

The recent emergence of Cryptolocker as one of the most widespread, visible and deadly threats is directly tied to the arrest of “Paunch”, the creator of the …

One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial …

DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection …

Does the Internet of Things scare you? It probably should. This DerbyCon video discusses why embedded device security is laughably bad, handling vendor notification, and …

ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) is a piece of malware that is very adept at hiding its existence from users, and brings in huge sums of money to its masters by performing click-fraud …

Many security professionals have heard about Command & Control botnets, even more have been infected by them. Very few have had the opportunity to actually look inside …