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The same week one of the world's worst spam operations is being shut down, security researchers are warning the next big threat may not be for PCs at all -- but rather for cell phones. Mobile Move A report issued Wednesday by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center says spam and other botnet-based attacks will make the move to mobile in the coming months. The study, called the E

U.S. military is planning to botnet attacks to its enemies computer network. US botnet is a disturbing concept, but next to cluster bombs and cruise missiles it's War Lite. According to Col. Charles W. Williamson III proposes that "...America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network [botnet] that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target computers that

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JULY 28, 2008 | First the good news: Click fraud dropped ever-so slightly last quarter, from 16.3 percent to 16.2 percent. But the bad news is that botnets were the force behind over 25 percent of all click fraud traffic in the second quarter, according to the latest numbers on pay-per-click fraud reported in the Click Fraud Index.The numbers -- logged by the Click Fraud Network, a group over 4,00

24hoursnews "Dan Kaminsky presented at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and said that the DNS vulnerability he discovered is much more dangerous than most have appreciated. Besides hijacking web browsers, hackers might attack email services and spam filters, FTP, Rsync, BitTorrent, Telnet, SSH, as well as SSL services. Ultimately it's not a question of which systems can be

A botnet can be used to keylog computers, capture screen shots, turn on webcam and take pictures, get cdkeys, get passwords, perform DDoS attacks, run commands, open sites, basically anything really.. Here we go ladies and gentlemen. Follow the tutorial: ----------------------------- I. Setting up the C++ compilier: (easy) 1. Download Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition here - http:

45% fail to update surfing software, report finds Nearly half (45.2 per cent) of all internet surfers neglect to regularly update their browser software. Slackness in applying updates in a timely fashion leaves an estimated 637 million surfers vulnerable to drive-by download attacks, according to a new survey.… Read more…

En el blog de Eset han publicado la captura de un programa que permite crear botnets o redes Zombi, estas son un grupo de computadoras (miles e incluso millones) que se encuentran infectadas por un troyano que es controlado remotamente por los ciberdelincuentes.Para desarrollar este tipo de malware es necesario tener buenos conocimientos de programación, pero siempre existe alguna herramienta que

Hace un par de días recomendaba la lectura de un artículo donde se hablaba en detalle sobre las botnets o redes zombis, para los que no saben lo que esto significa lo explico muy brevemente, una botnet es un grupo de computadoras controladas a distancia, generalmente con fines poco éticos, por un software malicioso que está instalado en cada una de ellas.Pues bien, recientemente se dio a conoc

More SQL injection insanity The miscreants who have poisoned more than half a million web pages aren’t the only attackers thinking big. People behind a botnet known as Asprox have recently rejiggered their army to infect websites in a similar fashion.… Read more…

I ricercatori di Security hanno scoperto un complesso sistema di spamming che infettava il PC delle vittime in modo da farlo diventare uno zombie da utilizzare per sferrare un attacco informatico alle università ed ai sistemi informativi militari. I ricercatori della sede rumena di BitDefender hanno individuato questo complesso schema , basato su una backdoor chiamata Edunet, che , dicono , è

O que é um Bot ? Bom, Bot é um tipo de código malicioso que transforma o computador infectado em um “zumbi”, ou seja, a serviço de seu controlador. Computadores “zumbis” são máquinas que podem ser controladas à distância pelo invasor, independente das ações do usuário A rede de computadores infectados por um bot é chamada de botnet (rede zumbi), tais redes podem abrigar centenas ou milhares de máquinas. As botnets geralmente são usadas para atacar sites, roubar dados, enviar spam, hospedar sites falsos e realizar ataques de negação de serviço, quando um site é acessado por milhares de máquinas simultaneamente e deixa de responder. A maioria dos bots se espalha utilizando falhas no Windows e redes peer-to-peer (P2P), como eMule e KaZaA, usadas para troca de arqui

The Kraken wakes The latest variants of Kraken have thrown up innovations in black hat stealth technology that are making botnets spawned by the malware harder to detect and dismantle.… Read more…

Un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad de Mannheim y el Institut Eurocom infiltraron el famoso botnet Storm, y probaron un método de contaminarlo aprovechándose de una vulnerabilidad en el protocolo P2P. La técnica no es nueva, pero gracias a dicha vulnerabilidad han demostrando que pueden interrumpir el proceso de comunicación entre las computadoras. El [...]

SecureWorks revealed in a published report, the most dangerous botnets spotted on the web and, even some of you may expect to the Storm  on the first position, it’s only the fifth. Thus, the first place was “won” by Srizbi, also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, which is a rootkit enabled botnet that sends no less than [...]

400,000 machines get Kraken Researches have unearthed what they say is the biggest botnet ever. It comprises over 400,000 infected machines, more than twice the size of Storm, which was previously believed to be the largest zombie network.… Read more…

Heard of "Storm Botnet"? Your answer might be uninteresting "No, what is that anyway?". Storm Botnet is a group of computers that are remotely controlled. According to some data, as of September 2007, the number of computers ranges from 160,000 to 1 million. The rub is, these computers are actually compromised, the owners doesn't know that their computers are remotely controlled by other people and are used for malicious purposes such as spamming and DOS attacks. These computers are controlled by "Storm Worm", a trojan which is spread via spam email. With the sheer number of computers available for the hackers, they can bring down any website or even Internet access of any nation. Another interesting fact is, that the only OS's that can be infected by the Storm Worm belong to Microsoft's.Y

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Elephant Viagra Six weeks ago, a small blizzard of spam promoting Ron Paul, the Republican underdog running for US president, touched off a lot of head scratching. Had politics finally stooped to a place where candidates would resort to such a reviled means of communication?… Read more…

LOS ÁNGELES, EEUU (Reuters) - Un hombre de Los Ángeles admitió haber infectado 250.000 ordenadores y robado la identidad de miles de personas, después de espiar sus correos electrónicos y acceder a sus cuentas bancarias. John Schiefer, de 26 años, decidió el viernes declararse culpable de cuatro cargos por fraude e interferencia de comunicaciones, que podrían suponerle una fianza de 1,75 millones

It’s freaky how the “Storm Botnet” has been reported by the media. It’s as if this was a natural phenomena like an ice age or El Nino. The average home user has no idea of the details and isn’t told what any of it means, only that they should be afraid. So, let’s see if I can break it down in layman’s terms: What is a botnet? - A bunch of computers taken over by someone who doesn’t own them. Computers have to be infected by a virus. This virus installs a program which puts the computer under remote control. The party doing the controlling can then issue commands to the infected computers. So they are like an army of zombies! There, don’t you feel better now? What do they do with these? - Oh, a zombie computer at your disposal can be quite a friend! Just a few handy uses your electronic slave can go to: Spam - Obviously. One spammer can be disabled by blocking their IP address. But a spammer with 5,000 machines doing his bid

Ars Technica publica hoy un reportaje de Jeremy Reimer donde nos dice que el FBI estima en más de 1 millón las computadoras comprometidas con malware trabajando para un “botnet“. El propósito de este “botnet” es utilizar estas computadoras para enviar spam y atacar otras computadoras. El FBI está trabajando en coordinación con Microsoft, el “Computer Emergency Response Team Center ” en la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon. Dice la noticia quel FBI está interesado sobretodo en identificar los operadores del “botnet”, llamados “botherders”, identificando hasta ahora a James C. Brewer de Arlington, Texas; Jason Michael Downey de Covington, Kentucky y a Robert Alan Soloway de Seattle, Washington. Vincent Cerf, pionero del protocolo TCP/IP, estima que una cuarta parte de todas las computadoras forman parte del “botnet”. Investigadores de Google dicen haber identificado 4.5 millones de páginas de Internet, enco

Software that could be used to turn a Web browser into an unwitting hacker’s tool has been posted to the Internet, after it was downloaded by a quick-thinking attendee at last month’s Shmoocon hacker conference. The software, called Jikto, was written by Billy Hoffman, lead researcher at Spy Dynamics Inc. Hoffman demonstrated the [...]

China has displaced Britain as the home of the greatest concentration of compromised (zombie) PCs. The world’s most populous country accounted for 26 per cent of the world’s bot-infected computers, a higher density than any other country. Beijing was the city with the most bot-infected computers in the world, accounting for just over [...]