Since its inception some six years ago, the Cutwail / Pandex botnet experienced its fair share of setbacks, but it's still going strong. The main reason for its existence is to send out millions of…
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Cutwail botnet on spam rampage, delivers Cridex worm
Radware identified a number of new attack methods representative of today’s increasingly sophisticated and severe DDoS threat. Their latest report highlights server-based botnets and encrypted layer a…
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DNS attacks increase by 170%
The Polish Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK), the national registry of the .pl domain and founder of CERT Polska, has announced on Friday that they took over 23 domains that served as C&C …
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Polish CERT hits Virut botnet
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Looking back at a year of Microsoft patches Last year Microsoft's Patch Tuesdays featured a total of …
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Week in review: Remote Linksys 0-day root exploit discovered, the Pobelka botnet, and a year of Microsoft patches
Analysts from Dutch-based security audit firm Fox-IT have recently released examined in great detail a botnet that has been around for quite some time, and is still functioning and bringing money to i…
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Fox-IT analysts demystify the Pobelka botnet
In addition to increasing attack sizes, attack volume grew in Q4 2012 and reached the highest number of attacks Prolexic has logged for one quarter, according to Prolexic. Traditional Layer 3 and…
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Large-scale DDoS attacks grow bigger and more diversified
Despite having been swooped down on by security companies and law enforcement a couple of times, the botmasters of the Waledac (Kelihos) botnet refuse to give up and are using new variants to set up n…
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Waledac botmasters use Virut malware to build a new botnet
It's already common knowledge that major commercial bank in the U.S. are under a new series of DDoS attacks. As with the first one, the responsibility for this one that started in December was cl…
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DDoS attackers on U.S. banks get help from hired botnets
As we close out 2012, there is no doubt that this year will go down as epic in the history books of information security professionals. Looking back on the year it’s not hard to find a laundry list of…
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What DDoS attacks reveal about your security infrastructure
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, interviews and articles: Improving information security with one simple question Anyone who has children, or has had to deal with…