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FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content. Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) was shut down by a district court...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Server, Bot, FTC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies

Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of innocent Internet-attached systems and, in the process, acquiring the owners of those systems as unwitting Although they are...

Tags: Eset, Worm, Bot, Cyberthreats, Internet, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2009-04-16

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...

Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Can Trend Micro's botnet identification service make a difference?

Trend Micro today rolled out its SecureCloud software-as-a-service platform with a new Botnet Identification Service BIS to help find botnet command-and-control servers and block communications between them and the zombie PCs they control.Geared towards ISPs and enterprise customers, the botnet ID service can be used to block communication to/from command-and-control...

Tags: Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Symantec, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, Passwords, Metasploit, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Operation Bot Roast: Too little too late

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dr Jose NazarioThe US FBI has kicked off Operation Bot Roast this summer with the goal of addressing the botnet problem. Hurray for them,it's good that something is being done. However, this is probably not going to stop the botnet problem, and maybe...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-07-02

'Operation Bot Roast' nets million-strong botnet operation

Law enforcement authorities today announced the arrest of three men accused of using a million-strong botnet of hijacked computers for spam-related crime.The FBI said its "Operation Bot Roast" identified more than one million victim computer IP addresses being used in criminal activity."The FBI is working with our industry partners,...

Tags: Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Privacy, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Pump-and-dump bot war?

Security researchers are seeing signs of gang warfare among pump-and-dump spam scammers.In one scenario spotted by Websense Security Labs, two separate spam runs were launched earlier this week, attempting to lure targets into buying a penny stock.It was the usual image spam that included a Web forum component where the...

Tags: Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Websense Inc.

Blog posts 2007-02-06

Defeating IRC Bots on the Internal Network

The rapid growth of botnets represents the greatest computer security threat facing individuals and corporations today. Fuelled by financial incentives and readily available source code, malware authors pursue aggressively the development of newer modules and the exploitation of code into these bots. This paper describes the process of setting up...

Tags: Computer Security, McAfee Inc., Internal Network, Network, IRC, Bot, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet

White papers 2007-02-01

AIAB (Am I a Bot) 1.1 (Windows)

AIAB is a malware detection tool, it will scan your system for the characteristics of malware and display it s results. It allows you to terminate a listed process or disable a detected start up. AIAB s scan parameters are stored in a local file so advanced users can add...

Tags: Malware, Bot, AW Solutions, AIAB, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-04-21

Botnets as a Vehicle for Online Crime

An analysis of real-world botnets indicates the increasing sophistication of bot malware and its thoughtful engineering as an effective tool for profit-motivated online crime. This analysis of source code and captured binaries has provided insight about: how botnets are built, what capabilities botnets possess, how botnets are operated, how botnets...

Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Malware, Bot, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

White papers 2005-12-01

WormRadar 2.0.0.2 (Windows)

WormRadar is designed to measure worm and bot prevalence on the Internet. Probe events are captured and reported to WormRadar s Web site, where the results are graphed. If it is allowed, all nodes will synchronize themselves to network time, and all events are reported to the millisecond, UTC. Each...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Worm, Bot, TruSecure Corp., WormRadar, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2005-02-16

Unreal Tournament 2003 - Trojan bot skin (Windows)

This is the Trojan bot skin for UT2003.

Tags: Trojan Horse, Microsoft Windows, Bot, Schmittma, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2003-10-30

Additional Resources

Windows 7 puts Vista into perspective: Only a 'failure' in retrospect

The fault lies with MS and Driver manufacturersWe don't criticize macs because they are a package deal, with a price premium to match so they generally work just fine. We don't call for witch hunts of Linux distro's because we expect to have problems and tweaks with Linux, plus it's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, COMPANIES, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Linux Distro, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'

Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'5 viruses already, including the famous Izombie Bot net and......a new worm that ZDNet has already written about just yesterday. how many viruses/worms did OSX have? None, untill a couple of months ago.Yesterday, a 10.5.07 just came out, with a...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Notebooks, Viruses and worms, PC commercial, Apple Inc., Laptop Hunters, advertisement, virus, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Stealthy router-based botnet worm squirming

Stealthy router-based botnet worm squirmingAnd there are SOOO many routers with default "admin" password out there!Something tells me that shipping hardware or software with default passwords is hacker friendly.How many have WAN access by default?I have not seen a router that comes pre-configured with allow control over WAN activated by...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Cyberthreats, router, password, Linux, worm

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flaws

Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flawsWhat OSs are vulnerable by default?Windows? OS X? Linux? Do any of these have QuickTime installed on them by default?RE: Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flawsso the macs adds saying that they dont get virus and malware.. and saying they are stable and...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Cyberthreats, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., code execution flaw, execution flaw

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Google services still have many security holes

Google services still have many security holesabout the desktop and toolbar oneI think the toolbar one is similar to the desktop one, but for the desktop one, it's nearly negligible. I mean, as I understand it you would need to be in the same wifi hotspot like the attacker or...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, NOSCRIPT Firefox extension, security, XSS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-03

Report: U.S. most prolific source of online attacks

Report: U.S. most prolific source of online attackswhat does Symantec know about VirusesSymantec could not detect a threat if it bit them in the ass. I use Norton Internet security and all it does is slow my pc down. It never detects a threat before it infects my pc. So...

Tags: Cyberthreats, bot

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

Worm sparks rise in zombie PCs

Worm sparks rise in zombie PCsWorm Sparks Rise In Zombie PCsNo worries, it will only affect those who own unlicensed copies of Windows...Microsoft has done a great job of patching their security holes, I doubt this will be an issue...Ok..made the obligatory Loverock comment..now the real comment.Now I know where...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, worm, zombie pc, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2006-08-22

Dropping Outlook from Office: smart or dumb?

Dropping Outlook from Office: smart or dumb?I don't disagree but...You need to keep in mind that Office Basic is not a retail product. It's a low-cost OEM package that will probably be used mostly by white box systems builders. You'll get no argument from me about how useful and powerful...

Tags: Groupware, RSS, Basic Edition, Vole, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Dropping Outlook

Discussion threads 2006-02-16