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Life cycle and detection of an exploit kit

As the process of owning systems and dragging them into botnets becomes ever more commercialized, exploit kits have emerged as a favorite of attackers. Their point-click-own nature means even non-tech…

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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K

It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention that the first massive Ma…

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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K

Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS

After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was initially thought that An…

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Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS

Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard

Following the discovery of a 600K strong Flashback botnet, Apple has been trying to undo the damage to its reputation and has worked on issuing tools, patches and updates aimed at cleaning up the infe…

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Week in review: Sizing up botnets, Conficker still alive and kicking, and a new exploit kit spotted in the wild

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: What’s in your daily slice of spam? Bitdefender decided to look at just what spam – the e-mail version – c…

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Week in review: Sizing up botnets, Conficker still alive and kicking, and a new exploit kit spotted in the wild

Flashback botnet is a cash cow

We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal of the criminals behind i…

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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botn…

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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices