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Botnets' Landscape Changes as Spammers Get Back in the Swing of Things
Spammers have been hard at work at regaining their past momentum. Over the past year, the botnet landscape has changed, especially since the McColo shutdown.
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Botnets Tighten Defenses Year After McColo Shutdown
In the roughly 12 months since the McColo shutdown caused a short but dramatic drop in spam, botnet operators have changed tactics to minimize the impact of authorities shutting down their ISPs. Security researchers discussed how with eWEEK.
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DDoS-As-A-Service Open For Business
McAfee report says botnet operators are increasingly contracting out their botnets to distributed denial-of-service attack service providers.
Facebook Password Spam Conceals Malware Attack
Researchers at several security firms have uncovered a spam campaign targeting Facebook users. The e-mails, which pose as communications from Facebook about password resets, contain a nasty downloader that ultimately makes users part of a notorious botnet.
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Virus writers are perfecting hit-and-run tactics
Repeated spikes of viruses that are not being detected by major antivirus engines were observed during the last quarter, apparently the result of hit-and-run tactics by virus writers to compromise large numbers of computers and then disappear before they can be countered.
After a Few Months' Rest, SQL Web Attack Spreads Anew
Named Asprox, after the toolkit used in its attacks, this network gained attention in May and June when it infected an estimated tens of thousands of Web pages on more than 1,000 Web domains, typically infecting the Web sites of small businesses, schools and local governments.
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IETF forges botnet clean-up standard
The IETF is developing a standard for how ISPs should go about cleaning up subscriber botnet infections.
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Linux webserver botnet pushes malware
A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet of sorts and used to distribute malware to unwitting people browsing the web.
Security firms discover botnet on Twitter
A Twitter account can be used as the command center for harnessing a "botnet" of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec reported. In a blog post Friday, Symantec analyst Peter Coogan wrote that researchers found an account, @upd4t3, which was tweeting out links to download a piece malware called Downloader.Sninfs. The account has since been suspended by Twitter.
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DDoS Attacks On Twitter, Facebook Result Of Massive Attack On One Person
Botnet attack takes aim at pro-Georgian blogger and leaves collateral damage on social networking sites.
