Latest Botnets Stories

ORLANDO, Fla., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the worldwide shutdown of the Mariposa botnet last week, Panda Security reported today that the massive botnet had infected 13 million computers in 190 countries and 31,901 cities. The take down was the result of a collaborative operation spearheaded by Panda Security, Defence Intelligence, the FBI and Spanish Guardia Civil, resulting in three arrests. According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, "The highest infection ratios...

Police said that Spanish criminals that stole bank details from computers around the globe did not realize the power of the illegal network they had created, which could have paralyzed an entire country's computer system. Police said in a news conference on Wednesday that they arrested three people they believed to have been involved in one of the biggest computer crimes ever detected. The men were from small Spanish towns and between the ages 25 and 31.  They are suspected of infecting...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA CONFERENCE 2010 -- According to IT security firms Panda Security and Defence Intelligence, the Mariposa botnet, a massive network of infected computers designed to steal sensitive information, has been shutdown and three suspected criminals accused of operating the botnet have been arrested by Spanish law enforcement. Mariposa stole account information for social media sites and other online email services, usernames and passwords, banking...

Is it possible to hide honeypot traps from Botnet dronesArmies of networked computers that have been compromised by malicious software are commonly known as Botnets. Such Botnets are usually used to carry out fraudulent and criminal activity on the Internet. Now, writing in the International Journal of Information and Computer Security, US computer scientists reveal that the honeypot trap designed to protect computers from Botnets are now vulnerable to attack because of advances in Botnet...

Microsoft announced Thursday that it had been given the go-ahead to cripple a massive network which has been sending out millions of spam emails, AFP reported.Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit received authorization from a US judge to sever command computers used by cyber crooks to spread the malicious Waledac virus through hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world. "We decided the best tactic would be to literally build a wall between the bot-herder, the command computer, and all of...

HERNDON , Va., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced today that its analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world. The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the "Kneber botnet" after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email...

ATLANTA, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Damballa, Inc., a security company focused on protecting enterprises from botnet breaches, today announced that it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance(TM) (SIA) partner program. As a member of the program, Damballa will integrate its Failsafe(TM) botnet identification and mitigation appliances with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO(TM)) platform. This combination will give enterprises greater visibility and protection against the...

Comcast Corp is seeking help from its subscribers in fighting the armies of "botnets" that devour bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime.The company began testing a service this week with subscribers in Denver, who will now receive pop-up messages from Comcast if their computers appear to have been hijacked by a botnet. One botnet, or infected computer, can have tens of thousands or even millions of PCs at its command.Comcast's pop-up message directs subscribers to a Comcast...

ATLANTA, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Damballa, Inc., the only security company focused on identification and mitigation of bot-driven targeted attacks against the enterprise, today announced the company's strategic Advisory Board. Damballa's Advisory Board consists of key industry leaders and influencers in IT security with over 75 years of combined experience in the technology marketplace. Damballa's Advisory Board members include: Raymond Komar, Vice President of Business Development at...

The Conficker botnet, released as an April Fools' joke, seems to still be around, a U.S. computer security officer said. ABC News reported more than 5.5 million computers remain infected by the convincingly written rogue computer code that contained a vague threat April 1. Most of the infestations are in Vietnam, China and Brazil. The gang behind Conficker are no fools. They know coding, development cycles, crypto. They are clever and are watching us, their enemy in the security industry,...