botnet

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 …

FireEye discovered a new mobile threat from a popular ad library that no other antivirus or security vendor has reported publicly before. Mobile ad libraries are third-party …

White Ops introduced a systematic solution for eliminating bot-infected traffic from advertising campaigns. “We have spent over a year tracking the bad guys attacking …

In a race against time and ZeroAccess developers and botmasters, Symantec researchers managed to sinkhole a large chunk of the infamous P2P-based botnet before its herders …

The Mevade Trojan and botnet have gained unexpected notoriety when it turned out that the majority of the recent, sudden and massive uptick in Tor users was the result of it …