As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet – formerly the third largest in the world – has been effectively shut down last week after several security researchers managed to coordinate the ta…
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Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail
Check Point introduced a new line of security appliances designed to fight DDoS attacks. The DDoS Protector appliances deliver multi-layered protection and up to 12 Gbps of throughput to help business…
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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Flashback botnet is a cash cow
Akamai Technologies introduced Akamai Kona Site Defender, a service designed to protect the brand value of companies by shielding their web sites, applications and associated data in the face of attac…
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Akamai protects enterprises from DDoS and application security attacks
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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Cutwail botnet intensifies spam spewing
A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China's two largest mobile carriers into a botnet numbering hundreds of thousands of …
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Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices
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. …
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Kelihos botnet rises up again
January marked half-time for the folks at the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) who are now running the DNS servers originally used in the Rove botnet. Ever since a multi-national task force dismantled…
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Detecting the DNS Changer malware
The slew of hacks, leaks of credit card information, DDoS attacks and defacements executed by Arab and Israeli hackers that transferred part of the longstanding, real world conflict to the Internet ha…
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Hacker allegedly leaks 100K Facebook account credentials of Arab users
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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Tool used in Anonymous Megaupload campaign