Last year's takedown of the Grum botnet was one the most fascinating ones so far, as it triggered a quick response from the botherders who tried to derail law enforcement efforts by setting up new C&C…
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Grum botnet makes a comeback
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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet
A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that functioned as a distributed p…
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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet
Helping ISPs defend customers against bot infections
At RSA Conference 2013 Kindsight announced the Kindsight Botnet Security service to help Internet service providers detect botnet activity in the network and protect subscribers against bot infections…
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Helping ISPs defend customers against bot infections
Malicious URLs eclipsing botnets as malware distribution leader
McAfee Labs revealed that sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, while an emerging set of ne…
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Malicious URLs eclipsing botnets as malware distribution leader
25% of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based
Twenty-five percent of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to Gartner. During such incidents, attackers send out targeted commands to a…
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25% of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based
Antibot: Network-based botnet removal tool
Botnets are flourishing with new packaging, new methods and new business models. ZeroAccess, the world’s fastest-growing botnet, infected millions of computers in 2012, using them to commit large-scal…
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Antibot: Network-based botnet removal tool
Week in review: Critical Flash update, Bamital botnet takedown, and children turning into malware developers
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews, articles and interviews: Federated single sign-on to dominate by 2016 A well-executed single sign-on (SSO) strategy redu…
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Week in review: Critical Flash update, Bamital botnet takedown, and children turning into malware developers
Massive Bamital click-fraud botnet shut down
Symantec and Microsoft have teamed up to take down the Bamital botnet, and are currently in the process of warning users infected with the Trojan on how to remove it from their computers. “Bamital …
Business is booming for exploits, mobile malware
Business is thriving for exploits, mobile malware is still dominated by Android and Symbian, and botnets are back and retooled, according to a new threat report from F-Secure Labs. “The world of m…
DDoS attack sizes plateau, complex multi-vector attacks on the rise
Arbor Networks released its 8th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) offering a rare view into the most critical security challenges facing today’s network operators. Based on su…
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DDoS attack sizes plateau, complex multi-vector attacks on the rise