botnet

Virus and malware activity increased during the month of May, sporadically hitting peaks of more than 10 million pieces per day, according to AppRiver. Major news events, once …

Microsoft believes that the individuals behind the (still crippled) Rustock botnets are located in Russia, so it placed advertisements in the The Moscow News and the Delovoy …

With six million unique samples of recorded malware, Q1 2011 was the most active first quarter in malware history, according to McAfee. The report revealed many of the trends …

When the news that the Spanish police arrested the three individuals suspected of running the Mariposa botnet was made public back in March 2010, it was generally thought that …

VirusTotal – the popular free file checking website – has been spoofed by malware peddlers, warns Kaspersky Lab. A simple visit to the site triggers the download …

Cross-platform malware is still a rare occurrence, so when it’s detected, it usually attracts more attention than the malware engineered to affect only one particular …

Some two weeks have passed since the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the …

There are over 600 millions of active Facebook users in the world, so it’s no wonder that they are often targets of a great variety of scams. The latest one is delivered …

On the 16th of March Rustock, the largest of the spamming botnets, was taken down. As you would expect, global spam levels started to drop, as can be seen when you look at the …

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the massive Coreflood botnet with …

McAfee announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform which includes: Enhanced botnet control: File and network connection reputation feeds from cloud-based McAfee …

Malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011, Commtouch reported today. The significant increase was detected two weeks after the takedown of the …