New Conficker Variant More Aggressive
Views: 5,574 [ad] Conficker has gotten quite a lot of news recently with it growing so fast and Microsoft offering a bounty for the authors. It seems like the Conficker authors are really serious about...
View ArticleConficker Day – April 1st – Uneventful
Views: 7,913 [ad] So the big Conficker scare of April 1st has passed without any real events, no major sites taken down, no major online terror campaigns spawned. Just a new more sophisticated, harder...
View ArticleHow to Scan for Conficker Worm
Views: 10,662 A bit of an update to the conficker worm that is supposedly scheduled for new updates and instructions today wednesday 1st. April 2009 and that nobody except for the bad guys knows what...
View ArticleConficker Finally Awakes & Dumps Payload
Views: 9,547 [ad] So it seems something big was brewing with Conficker, they just didn’t want to do what everyone expected and unleash it on April 1st when all eyes were on them. Smart move really,...
View ArticleTorpig Botnet Hijacking Reveals 70GB Of Stolen Data
Views: 5,520 [ad] We did mention Torpig in passing back in January 2008 when talking about the Mebroot rootkit which digs down deep into the Master Boot Record. It seems like Torpig has been pretty...
View ArticleChinese Company Shares Huge Malware Database
Views: 11,516 [ad] We need more companies like this that acknowledge hoarding data isn’t doing anything for the greater good, to really stamp out the core problems you have to share the data you’ve...
View ArticleChinese Firm Writes First SMS Worm
Views: 21,944 [ad] Ah another first, and once again China is at the forefront! We recently reported about a Chinese company sharing their huge malware database and now a group of Chinese companies has...
View ArticleTwitter Being Used As Botnet Command Channel
Views: 13,631 [ad] Ah Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time...
View ArticleTexas Man Pleads Guilty To Bot Network For Hire
Views: 7,054 [ad] Another botnet herder bites the dust, the latest news in the malware arena is about David Anthony Edwards from Texas who has admitted he and his accomplice had offered tailor made...
View ArticleDigital Underground Offering Cheap Botnets For Hire
Views: 16,421 Perhaps even the cyber-criminals are effected by the recent recession – botnets for hire are hitting rock-bottom rates starting at just $2. We reported back in April 2010 about the Texas...
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