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Authorities in the UK have arrested two people suspected of distributing the Zeus Trojan. The arrests were made by the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit and are the first ever in connection with the Trojan, which has infected hundreds of …

Researchers have successfully knocked a major botnet offline. The Mega-D botnet was shut down by a team at FireEye. The researchers attacked the botnet by registering some domains meant for the botnet’s command and control servers and shutting down others. …

A new wave of spam being pumped out by the Pushdo botnet is exploiting the FDIC and attempting to capitalize on worries about the economy. The spams are made to look like they came from the FDIC and inform the …

Malware is fundamentally a cultural problem, according to an octet of academics who hijacked control of a malicious computer network, or botnet,  for 10 days earlier this year. “[T]he victims of botnets are often users with poorly maintained machines that …

According to security researchers, three current botnet-driven SQL injection attacks appear to be the work of one individual or gang. Around 80,000 websites in China, 40,000 in India and 67,000 in the U.S. have been compromised and put under botnet control …

It would be a fair bet to say that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have seen “Night of the Living Dead.” The Livermore, California researchers embarked on a test to duplicate a zombie network a million strong. The researchers ran …

Experts in Australia have discovered that the Gumblar botnet, which first appeared on the web in May, has come back to life and is pumping out spam. Gumblar started it’s life as malware that attacked websites. It searched for FTP …

The July 4th holiday brought more than fireworks. Over the weekend, a botnet began a large scale DDoS attack against U.S. government websites. It knocked the FTC’s site offline and has hit several other government sites including the Department of Transportation …

University of California Santa Barbara researchers gave us a rare look inside of a botnet, when they recently took control of the Torpig botnet for a period of ten days and observed its malicious dealings. According to a report on …

Last year, teenage Kiwi Owen Thor Walker landed a job with major New Zealand telecommunications company, TelstraClear. What makes the appointment somewhat unusual is that the 19-year-old had appeared in court the previous year on charges relating to his creation …