Botnets gain 18 infected systems per second
“According to industry estimates, botnets have caused over $9 billion in losses to US victims and over $110 billion in losses globally. Approximately 500 million …
Financial ransomware now targeting U.S. users
Although the GameOver Zeus botnet and CryptoLocker ransomware have been disrupted, it is still too early for a victory celebration. First, the two week deadline expires on …
Relations between spam landscape actors can be leveraged for detection
Since late 2012, a group of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and RWTH Aachen University has been working on finding out the relations that exist between the different actors …
Why botnet takedowns can cause more harm than good
Zeus is a well-known and highly successful crimeware kit – the flat-pack furniture of the virus world. It is under constant development by several criminals or groups …
International action against Gameover Zeus botnet and CyptoLocker ransomware
On Friday, 30 May 2014, law enforcement agencies from across the world, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, joined forces in a coordinated action led …
Mobile bad bots running across most top mobile operators
During 2013, Distil Networks fingerprinted and catalogued 2.2 billion bad bots, or 31 percent of the bad bots that exist in Distil’s database of 7-billion bad bots. Bad …
As the World Wide Web turns 25, bots reign supreme
As the World Wide Web turns 25, we’ve just had another reminder of how far we’ve come. On March 10th, just two days before this milestone, Cryptome reported that …
DDoS attack toolkit simplifies the launch of large reflection attacks
Prolexic Technologies issued a high alert DDoS attack threat advisory on the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit. The toolkit makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to launch …
Researchers uncover months-old POS malware botnet
With the Target and Neiman Marcus breach being all over the news in the last few weeks, the topic of malware that collects card data directly from Point-of-Sale devices has …
Java-based malware hits Windows, Mac and Linux
Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently analysed a piece of malware that works well on all three of the most popular computer operating systems – the only thing that it …
16 million logins compromised, warns German infosec agency
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued on Tuesday a notification warning that some 16 million online user accounts have been compromised, and …
Cybersecurity predictions for 2014
The advent of new technologies, the widespread implementation of mobile and wireless communication and the increase in mobile adoption will open up new opportunities for …
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