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  • Storm Valentines run under way

    Seasonal spam and malware barrage gets going. The expected run of ‘Storm’ spams, pushing links to their latest line of malware disguised as Valentine’s messages, has begun, with many reports of spams appearing all over the world. The Storm botnet controllers have got their timing back on track, after a previous batch of Valentine messages…

  • Stormy love letters

    Storm botnet celebrates birthday with new wave of spam. Earlier this week malware experts warned of likely increased activity of the Storm botnet around Valentine’s Day next month. However, the botherders seem to have taken this as a prompt as, even though Valentine’s Day is still a month away, the botnet has since been responsible…

  • Phishing danger increases as Storm botnet is hired out

    Smart new trojan and Storm diversification add to online banking risk. The dangers of banking online grew significantly in past weeks, as portions of the ever-expanding Storm botnet were hired out to run phishing campaigns and a sophisticated new trojan was discovered, capable of targeting 400 different online banking systems around the world. With the…

  • Botnet roasting on an open fire

    FBI reports successes of operation Bot Roast; McAfee predicts cyber espionage for 2008. The FBI has revealed that eight individuals have been indicted, pled guilty or been sentenced for crimes related to botnet activity since the start of its ‘Operation Bot Roast’ in June. The operation, now in its second phase, has also seen the…

  • Teenage botherder arrested in New Zealand

    International cooperation also leads to eight arrests in the US. Police in New Zealand have arrested an 18-year-old youth believed to be the herder of a botnet of 1.3 million computers, reports the BBC . The hacker, who uses the online name ‘Akill’, has been released after questioning, but is still being investigated. The arrest…

  • US botnet master confesses to crimes

    Security consultant to plead guilty, could face heavy sentence. A Los Angeles man has agreed to plead guilty to several counts of fraud and unauthorised interfering with computer systems, having built a botnet comprising up to 250,000 machines, installing adware and using harvested data to defraud money from bank accounts, both directly and via PayPal…

  • Storm botnet evolution hints at spam and DDoS renting

    Latest change in tactics could mean zombie clusters for hire. The latest twist in the long-running ‘Storm’ saga, the use of encryption in communications between infected hosts and command-and-control systems, has led to widespread speculation that the ever-growing botnet being built up by the criminals behind the attack is being split into segments in preparation…

  • Storm DDoS hits anti-scam sites

    419 fighters attacked – NFL and TOR latest spam hooks. The massive botnet amassed by the ‘Storm’ (Zhelatin/Nuwar/Dorf/etc.) attack continues to target new victims, with the TOR online anonymity system and the start of the NFL season in the US the latest social engineering tactics to trick spam recipients into installing the trojans. Over the…

  • House of Lords warns of e-crime fears

    Report recommends harder, smarter fight against online dangers. A major report by the Science and Technology Committee of the UK’s House of Lords has found the internet to be rife with crime, with current legislation to control it seriously lacking and public mistrust and fear extremely high. The detailed study, entitled ‘Personal Internet Security’, probes…

  • Worries of Storm forming massive botnet

    DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom. Repeated waves of the ‘Storm’ trojan attacks continue to be spammed out, with the latest using more eCards to hook in still more victims. As numbers of infected systems continue to grow, the threat of such a large network of zombies being used for a major DDoS attack…