Evgeniy Bogachev accused of GameOver ZeuS botnet crimes The US State Department and the FBI, have stumped up $3m in reward money for the arrest of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the 30-year-old Russian man accused of stealing over $100m with his malware.…
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Red or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a backdoor for Linux-powered systems, which boasts multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids
Akamai has observed the use of a new reflection and amplification DDoS attack that deliberately misuses communications protocols that come enabled on millions of home and office devices, including rou…
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4 million UPnP devices may be vulnerable to attack
Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware researchers of Russian AV…
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New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
Avast! Belay that ‘RomanticVK’ order – there be MONSTERS Russian cops have arrested two mobile botnet cybercrime suspects as part of an ongoing investigation that’s reckoned to be the first of its kind in Russia.…
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Russian botnet suspects cuffed over romantic MMS spyware allegs
CyberVor, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Anecdotal evidence is emerging that the Russian botnet raiders behind the “biggest-ever” password theft have begun attacks against web services using stolen login credentials.…
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Gang behind ‘1.2 billion’ megahack ransack is pwning our customers – hosting firm
The cyber crooks behind the Kelihos botnet are, once again, trying to swell the number of computers included in it. They are trying a novel approach: posing as a “community Russian programmers,” …
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Kelihos botmasters target Russian patriots to expand botnet
A new malware that researchers have dubbed Mayhem is being used to target Linux and Unix web servers and has so far compromised over 1,400 Linux and FreeBSD servers around the world, warn researchers …
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Mayhem malware ropes Linux, UNIX servers into botnets
Arrest warrant out as recommended clean-up site staggers under demand A US indictment has been unsealed against an alleged cybercrime mastermind following an FBI-led takedown operation that disrupted the internet infrastructure upon which the Gameover ZeuS botnet and the CryptoLocker ransomware had been running.…
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Feds charge 30-year-old suspect alleged to be lord of Gameover botnet