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Feds smash international cybercrime ring with Power of Facebook

Ad-men and G-men form potent globo force The FBI have said that with the help of Facebook, they’ve taken down an international crime gang who went on an $850m botnet spree.…

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How to prevent a botnet infection?

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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Week in review: Grum botnet shutdown, Android malware, and Madi Trojan targeting the Middle East

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and reviews: How to make smart grids To prepare for a successful roll-out of smart grids, a new ENISA study proposes 10 …

Microsoft names alleged Zeus bot herders

When Microsoft disrupted two of the most harmful botnets using Zeus malware in March, they also filed a lawsuit at the federal district court in New York against the bot herders who, at the time, were…

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Massive botnet shut down after botmaster's arrest

Following an investigation that lasted 10 months, Russian police authorities have managed to arrest the 22-year-old operator of one of the largest botnets known to date. According to a press rele…

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Kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre

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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Cutwail botnet intensifies spam spewing

The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake forwarded Xerox scans and …

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Kelihos botnet rises up again

Kelihos – the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead – is back and working. …

Tool used in Anonymous Megaupload campaign

Once again, Anonymous is using the low orbit ion canon (LOIC) to DDoS websites. This tool was developed by white hat hackers to stress test websites. Not surprisingly, the tool they are using is ex…

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UK cops: ‘We thwarted Royal Wedding web attack plot’

Kid cuffed in DDoS probe UK cybercops have claimed credit for preventing attempts to blast the official Royal Wedding website offline in April, following the arrest of a teenager suspected of masterminding the attack.