Tag: botnet
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Botnet rented for online extortion
Man who threatened World Cup bookmakers with DDoS attack convicted. A German man who hired a botnet and used it to threaten bookmakers with DDoS attacks during the 2010 FIFA World Cup has been convicted of six counts of computer sabotage by a court in Düsseldorf. The man hired a Russian botnet for US$65 a…
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Zeus source code leaked
Banking trojan among the most advanced of its kind. Researchers at Danish security firm CSIS have discovered that the full source code of the Zeus crime kit has been leaked to underground forums. Zeus, also known as Zbot, is one of the most advanced kits of its kind. The Zeus trojan is commonly used to…
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Smile, you’re on a botnet!
Multi-platform Java botnet allows for remote control of webcam and microphone. Researchers have discovered a multi-platform botnet running on the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) that can potentially run on both Windows machines and on Mac s. The botnet, of which only the Windows version has been seen in the wild, installs itself on a victim’s…
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Department of Justice shuts down Coreflood botnet
‘Stop’ command sent from replaced command and control servers. Earlier this week the US Department of Justice (DoJ) obtained an unprecedented temporary restraining order (TRO) that effectively allowed it to send ‘stop’ commands from the command and control servers of the Coreflood botnet – thus managing to shut it down. As is the case with…
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Cutwail botnet sent 1.7 trillion spam messages
Operators made several million through botnet. Researchers from The Last Line of Defense and universities in Bochum and Santa Barbara have shared some insight into the workings of the Cutwail botnet (also known as Pushdo) after having managed to gain access to its command and control (C&C) servers. Using the logs of the C&C servers…
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Spam levels take a nose dive as Rustock apparently taken down – update
Eerie silence from Rustock botnet. Microsoft reported to have co-ordinated take down. Spam levels have taken a nose dive over the last 24 hours – apparently as a result of a take down operation by unknown anti-spam activists. The Rustock botnet has been responsible for enormous amounts of spam over the last few years –…
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Cybercriminals frustrated with botnet trackers
Drastic measures discussed by users of online forum. Russian cybercriminals are willing to go to great lengths to frustrate services that hinder botnets created with the ZeuS and SpyEye exploit kits, according to security journalist Brian Krebs. Krebs managed to gain access to an exclusive Russian language forum that caters to cybercriminals. The forum’s users…
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ENISA calls for revised botnet measurements
EU agency says current measures of botnet threat are misleading. European cyber security agency, ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) has called for a review of how botnets are assessed and measured. Two studies by the agency are due to be published at a botnet workshop in Cologne today, evaluating both the botnet…
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New peer-to-peer botnet discovered
New botnet shares fast flux DNS and other similarities with Storm and Waledac. In the last few days of 2010, security researchers discovered a new botnet that shares many similarities with the Waledac and Storm botnets. The botnet started with a spam campaign that sent millions of emails claiming to be holiday e-cards – a…