Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices
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 …
Update on the Kelihos 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 botnet rises up again
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 …
Millions of infected Android apps… or not?
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 …
Kelihos malware author, botnet herder named by Microsoft
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 …
Koobface botnet goes down, suspects scurry to erase tracks
As the names of the five individuals believed to be behind the Koobface botnet were revealed on Tuesday, their reaction was almost immediate and seems to validate the …
Identities of likely Koobface gang members revealed
It was a well-known fact in security circles that some researchers were involved for quite some time in an investigation aiming at revealing the identities of the individuals …
Defensive search-and-destroy “virus” delivered to Japanese government
It took three years and 178.5 million yen (around $2.3 m) to develop a defensive cyber weapon that can track down the sources of cyber attacks and disable them, but Fujitsu …
The rise of social media abuse and mobile malware
IID released its list of the top security trends from 2011. Some specific trends that IID saw emerge over the past year include the extended enterprise coming under assault, …
Mobile pickpocketing and botnets will rise
Mobile threats are on the rise — Lookout estimates that mobile threats successfully stole more than one million dollars from Android users in 2011. In 2012, Lookout predicts …
2012 network security trends
Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently …
Cutwail botnet’s various spam campaigns
The bot herders behind Cutwail – one of the oldest botnet that’s still alive and kicking and numbers over 1,5 million bots – have recently been spotted using …
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