Latest Storm botnet Stories
Your e-mail trash folder may be looking a bit lean lately. Since August of last year, the overall volume of e-mail spam has steadily dropped and it was more pronounced at the end of 2010. The software security firm Symantec reports in its latest State of Spam Report & Phishing Report that there has been a huge reduction in output from the Rustock botnet, which was clearly the most dominant spam botnet in 2010. Since December 25, the Rustock botnet has basically disappeared as the amount...
Fidelis XPSâ„¢ Anti-Botnet Feed Powered by Umbra Data (Vocus/PRWEB) December 08, 2010 Fidelis Security Systems, the market leader in network security solutions for the prevention of cyber attacks and data breaches, today announced that their award-winning network security solution, Fidelis XPSâ„¢, provides an Anti-Botnet threat intelligence feed powered by Umbra Data. Building upon the Anti-Malware and Anti-Phishing threat intelligence feeds already available in Fidelis XPS,...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), a cyber-division of the police (KLPD), in a presentation at the GOVCERT.NL Symposium, today recognized Norman ASA's forensic contributions in assisting multinational police agencies in monitoring and disabling large, multinational cybercrime botnets. A botnet is a network of computers that can number more than a million nodes, where the computers are infected with malicious software and...
An executive at Microsoft has suggested that computers infected with viruses that can potentially infect other PCs should be blocked from being able to access the Internet. The proposal is based on lessons learned from public health, said Scott Charney of the software giant's Trustworthy Computing team. The team is designed to take down networks of infected computers under the control of cyber criminals. Putting the computers under quarantine would stop the spread of a virus and allow it...
CULVER CITY, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Thursday, Sept. 9th, 2010, Symantec Security Response began actively tracking a new, malicious computer worm that spreads What/Why: using a socially engineered e-mail attack. The threat arrives via an e-mail that asks the recipient to click on a link embedded in the e-mail. This link actually points to a malicious program file that is disguised as a PDF...
MADRID and OTTAWA, Ontario, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Spain's Panda Security and Canada's Defence Intelligence provided key information to the FBI and international authorities that led to catching 23 year-old, "Iserdo," the confirmed author of the Butterfly botnet kit. With their partners in the Mariposa Working Group, the two security firms identified Iserdo by analyzing the software behind the Mariposa botnet that compromised millions of systems worldwide. Iserdo was arrested last week in...
A 23-year-old computer hacker known as Iserdo has been arrested in Slovenia. The hacker is believed to have written the program behind the Mariposa virus, which is also known as the "butterfly."The botnet was dismantled earlier this year after infecting 12.7 million computers. The virus was designed to steal personal financial details and was also found in the PCs of banks and major companies. Officials from around the world have been trying to capture the criminals behind the...
BEIJING, July 5 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- New mobile viruses, disguised as "Free World Cup VOD" and other hot topics, were captured last week by the Mobile Security Center of NetQin Mobile Inc. More than 500 complaint cases were reported and filed on June 23. Identified as ShadowSrv.A, FC.Downsis.A, BIT.N and MapPlug.A, these viruses were embedded in mini mobile games to lure users to download. Once downloaded, the device will be controlled by the virus originator. The virus propagation...
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...
