Tag: botnet
-
Major pump-and-dump campaign floods inboxes
Heavy stock scam barrage ups spam levels 30%. A major PDF pump-and-dump campaign has been reported, with massive numbers of mails spammed out. According to spam watchers at Sophos , the campaign has been responsible for a 30% rise in the number of spams spotted in the past 24 hours, and has significantly affected the…
-
FBI serves up Operation Bot Roast
Investigations identify more than 1 million victim IP addresses. The FBI has announced the results of an ongoing initiative, dubbed ‘Operation Bot Roast’, which is aimed at disrupting botnet activities and raising public awareness of botnets. According to the FBI’s press release , investigations have identified more than one million victim IP addresses, the owners…
-
Botnet DoS no longer profitable
Extortion attacks fall as herders find easier money elsewhere. The use of armies of botnets to carry out denial-of-service attacks on lucrative websites, as a method of extorting money from owners unwilling to be knocked offline and lose valuable profits, has declined considerably over the last year, according to Symantec . The tactic, which was…