botnet

The development of a new botnet that will rely on a decentralized architecture based on P2P technology is nearing completion and will soon be offered for sale for a sum of …

Agari announced the first Annual Sumo Awards to dishonor phishing’s biggest contributors and enablers. The Sumo Awards categories identify why phish emails succeed, …

As the date of the planned shutdown of the clean servers that constitute the only link to the Internet for the 400,000 or so computers still infected with the DNSChanger …

The latest build of the Zeus/SpyEye malware shows a change that could very well hamper the security researchers’ ability to take down the botnets using it and to find …

The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake …

In 2011, the most significant evolution in the threat landscape was the use of malware networks, or malnets, to launch highly dynamic Web-based attacks, according to Blue Coat …

As announced by Kaspersky Lab researchers and confirmed by Microsoft, the C&C and backup infrastructure of the original Kelihos/Hlux botnet is still down after their …

A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China’s two largest mobile carriers into a botnet …

Reports that the Kelihos botnet is back online and that its original operators are again trying to take over its reigns have been premature, says Microsoft. “Contrary to …

Kelihos – the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a …

Over the weekend, several websites picked up Symantec’s story about Trojanized apps on the official Android Market. This happens from time to time, but what got …

Microsoft has named a new defendant in the ongoing Kelihos case. His name is Andrey N. Sabelnikov, of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, and is believed to have written the …