How to Scan for Conficker Worm
Views: 10,662 A bit of an update to the conficker worm that is supposedly scheduled for new updates and instructions today wednesday 1st. April 2009 and that nobody except for the bad guys knows what...
View ArticleTorpig Botnet Hijacking Reveals 70GB Of Stolen Data
Views: 5,520 [ad] We did mention Torpig in passing back in January 2008 when talking about the Mebroot rootkit which digs down deep into the Master Boot Record. It seems like Torpig has been pretty...
View ArticleTwitter Being Used As Botnet Command Channel
Views: 13,631 [ad] Ah Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time...
View ArticleZeus-related Botnet Servers Taken Offline
Views: 6,807 [ad] We wrote about Zeus a while back, a nasty trojan which can evade detection by Anti-virus software and is ranked as the number 1 trojan infector by numbers. About a week ok a massive...
View ArticleVodafone Spain Distributing Mariposa Malware
Views: 5,200 [ad] Just a week after supplying an infected Android phone to a worker at Panda Security, Vodafone Spain has once again managed to pass out a malware infected HTC Magic phone to a...
View ArticleChina Reports Millions Of Conficker Infections
Views: 5,611 [ad] Conficker has been giving us all headaches for quite some time now, the latest news it that China hosts up to 28% of the World Conficker infections at its peak. 7 million separate...
View ArticleNew Malware Variants More Malicious Than ILOVEYOU Bug
Views: 7,584 [ad] So no big surprise here, malware is getting more malicious! It’s good to know though and it’s good that companies out there like Messagelabs, under the watchful eye of Symantec, are...
View ArticleAustralians Propose ‘No Anti-virus – No Internet Connection’ Policy
Views: 7,222 [ad] So after a year of research and debate, what did the Aussies come up with? A policy to disconnect people from the Internet if they get infected by a virus.. Rather naive isn’t it?...
View ArticleDigital Underground Offering Cheap Botnets For Hire
Views: 16,421 Perhaps even the cyber-criminals are effected by the recent recession – botnets for hire are hitting rock-bottom rates starting at just $2. We reported back in April 2010 about the Texas...
View ArticleSecurity Researchers Discover 4 Million Strong ‘Indestructible’ Botnet –...
Views: 12,723 It’s been recently uncovered that there’s a HUGE botnet, which is extremely advanced and constantly evolving a variant of the ever popular (and usually quite advanced) TDL strain. We did...
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