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  • Botnet-herding team arrested in Quebec

    Gang held for managing million-machine zombie net. Canadian police have announced the arrests of up to 17 people in Quebec, in connection with a major botnet operation thought to have controlled as many as 1 million compromised systems all around the world. The Quebec and national police were behind a series of raids across the…

  • Attempted virus fumbles attack on F-Secure

    Flawed file-infector fails to frighten Finns. A highly buggy intended virus has been found to include an attempt to launch a DDoS attack on the websites of Finnish security firm F-Secure , alongside a suggestion that the firm’s head of labs Mikko Hyppönen needs a haircut. The flawed parasitic malware, which appears to have been…

  • 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…

  • Storm e-card malware keeps on coming

    No end to flood of fake friendly greetings. A further wave of e-cards carrying links to ‘Storm’ malware (various labelled Nuwar, Peacomm, Dorf, Zhelatin) has been hitting inboxes around the world all this week, with no signs of any letup in the deluge. The latest barrage carry a simple message, using spoofed source addresses and…

  • 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…

  • Spam barrages take down filters, networks

    Report shows increase in spam bombardment attacks. MessageLabs ‘ monthly report on the latest trends in spam has warned of an alarming rise in ‘spam spikes’, targeted attacks which use high volumes of spam directed at a single company in an attempt to overwhelm gateway spam filters. The aim of the attack is to cause…

  • Estonian websites suffer wave of DoS attacks

    Baltic republic accuses Russia of cyber-warfare. A wave of denial of service (DoS) attacks on Estonian websites has prompted the Estonian government to accuse its neighbour of waging cyber-warfare and to call for better response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the EU. Massive DoS attacks have been affecting Estonian websites for the last three weeks…

  • 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…