Nimble spammers exploit Boston bombings, Texas disaster
Junk mail gang spreading botware by tapping interest in American calamities
John P. Mello Jr. | 19 Apr | Read more
Junk mail gang spreading botware by tapping interest in American calamities
John P. Mello Jr. | 19 Apr | Read more
Our team at Nominum recently looked at the biggest threats to fixed networks at the DNS layer. Why the DNS layer? Because it is ubiquitous -- every network runs on it -- and it is the best option for protecting critical infrastructure.
Craig Sprosts, vice president of platforms and applications at Nominum | 22 Feb | Read more
Security researcher foresees mobile botnets coming this year
John P. Mello Jr. | 06 Feb | Read more
Businesses should take a holistic view of their security as mass market and targeted threats converge.
Patrick Budmar | 17 Jan | Read more
The earliest worms and viruses were created for geeky fun and did little harm - oh, how times have changed. Here are 20 worms, viruses and botnets that show the evolution of malware, from Creeper to Flame.
Joan Goodchild | 05 Nov | Read more
Recent efforts by Microsoft and law enforcement to take down the biggest spamming botnets may have helped fight pharmaceutical companies but they have had little effect on overall spam levels.
Advertising for pharmaceuticals is still the most common type of spam globally, despite a 24 percentage point drop in share since the end of 2010. The new fake online pharmacy brand WikiPharmacy is to blame, says Symantec.
Stilgherrian | 01 Jul | Read more
Online criminals have evolved their tactics to harden their botnets against takedown using a variety of tactics, including fast-flux networks and Conficker-like dynamic domain generation. Yet, such tactics can also pinpoint when such networks are being created by bot operators, according to research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Robert Lemos | 22 Jun | Read more
The source code and a manual to the popular crimeware creation kit Zeus has been leaked, perhaps giving defenders additional tools to fight infections but also raising concerns that criminals may use the source code to create a rapidly expanding compendium of variants.
Robert Lemos | 14 May | Read more
PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.
Robert McMillan | 10 Dec | Read more
More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet, according to security researchers.
Jeremy Kirk | 02 Feb | Read more
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure.
Robert McMillan | 11 Dec | Read more
Banging the drum for security awareness never gets old. As much as CSOs try to get folks to bone up on safe practices (both online and in the office), there are always going to be some who need reminding.
Joan Goodchild | 20 Nov | Read more
A computer security company known for battling botnets moved last week to try to shut down a persistent spam player.
Jeremy Kirk | 11 Nov | Read more
Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.
Robert McMillan | 05 Nov | Read more