Following the settling of the Nitol botnet lawsuit earlier this month, Microsoft has announced on Friday that it has reached a settlement with Russian software programmer Andrey N. Sabelnikov, who was…
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Microsoft concludes Russian programmer didn't operate Kelihos botnet
Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called itsoknopr…
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DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication
The research team at e-mail security provider Eleven, published five tips today to help users prevent a botnet infection on their computer. Botnets are groups of hijacked private and corporate comp…
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How to prevent a botnet infection?
The ZeroAccess rootkit has been around for quite some time now, spying on infected users, hiding from installed AV solutions and attempting to terminate them, redirecting users' online searches to mal…
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Lucrative ZeroAccess botnet enslaves one million active computers
Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and trends employed during mult…
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Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted the functioning of yet another botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain which was also hosting over 500 different strains of malware and has been linked…
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Microsoft's study into unsecure supply chains leads to botnet disruption
Over the years, botnet owners have tried out different tactics for keeping their C&C servers online, in contact with the zombie computers, and hidden from researchers and law enforcement agencies, …
Joshua Schichtel was sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected computers. In addition to his prison term, Schichtel was ordere…
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Arizona man goes to prison for selling access to botnets
Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly common phenomena, used by a variety of actors—from activists to governments—to temporarily or indefinitely pre…
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DDoS attacks protection advice from the EFF
DDoS attacks are usually seen as the domain of hacktivists and hackers looking to block – then blackmail – companies that are heavily dependent on their Internet presence. But, with the rise of bot…
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DDoS attacks aimed at telecom systems are on the rise