Botnet herders upgrade malware, still making bank – Sophos The stealthy ZeroAccess botnet commands a zombie army of more than one million machines, according to new research.…
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Crooks can milk ‘$100k a day’ from 1-million-zombie ZeroAccess army
‘Undesirable people’ are all over us WHMCS, the UK-based billing and customer support tech supplier, has once again come under denial of service attacks, on this occasion following an upgrade of its systems to defend against a SQL injection vulnerability.…
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WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems
Suspiciously close to Soca’s shutdown of stolen-data shops The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack that started last night and is still going on.…
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Botnet army flicks ‘off’ switch at UK crime agency website
Pumping spam, entering backdoors again almost right away Security researchers have warned that the resurrected Kelihos botnet blasted off the face of the web yesterday is still alive.…
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Kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre
Valid attack could seize infected machines Updated A self-describer “law-abiding citizen” has posted attack plans against the Sality botnet on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, along with a tongue-in-cheek warning not to enact them since that would be illegal.…
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Sality botnet takedown plans posted online
Bloke accused of flooding Gene Simmons’ website The FBI has arrested a man suspected of taking part in a DDoS attack that smashed KISS bassist and reality telly star Gene Simmons’ web site off the internet.…
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Feds cuff KISS rock star’s DDoS suspect
Data finds over 1 m UK Home PCs Belonging to Botnets The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that a Dutch security researchers’ group trying to determine methods by which compromising of home PCs can be lessened from getting criminally used, recently, discovered that crime botnets seized over 1m home computers in UK.
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A new paper being presented next month at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) shows easy it is to infiltrate Facebook and harvest valuable user data. Botnets, networks of hijacked computers controlled remotely for criminal gain or spreading propaganda, have been aggravating cybersecurity professionals for years. The near-billion people connected to social networks has made Facebook and Twitter the new juicy targets for similar schemes
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Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Infiltrate Facebook
The Commerce and Homeland Security departments are considering whether a set of voluntary industry standards are needed to combat botnets, the malicious networks of compromised computers controlled by online criminals, hackers and possibly nation-states. Steps being considered include a centralized customer support center for Internet service providers, a voluntary code of conduct for vendors and service providers along with incentives for participation, and an effort to identify best practices for preventing, identifying and mitigating infections. “Over the past several years, botnets have increasingly put computer owners at risk,” said a request for information published last month by DHS, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
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DHS, Commerce looking to battle botnets
When some people hear about DDoS attacks and botnets containing thousands of zombie hosts, they think it could never happen on their network. While it is true that most of the recent attacks on websites were directed at high profile names, other networks can host the systems responsible for the attacks. In other cases your neighbors could gain access to your network via wireless connections and use it for sending email.
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Is There a Zombie On Your Network?