Tag Archives: botnets

John Leydon over at The Register posted an interesting article recently. It seems that botnet herders have learned how to avoid honeypots. Honeypots are the name given to traps set by security firms-groups of unprotected computers designed to lure botnets …

Security experts have discovered that the infamous Storm botnet is making a comeback. The original Storm roared to life two years ago, pumping out a whopping 20% of the world’s spam at its peak.  To spread itself it sent fake …

Here’s a look at the top 5 botnets and what they’re up to: 5. Bagle- This botnet has been around since 2004 and undergone many transformations. It now acts as a proxy for spammers. Its 500,000 or so zombies push …

A new survey has revealed the net is being subjected to a high tech crime wave. Over 100 attacks per second hit the world’s computers, and 1 every 4.5 seconds succeeds in an infection. Malware has soared to a record high, …

More than 80 percent of the keyboard jockeys on two continents know what bot networks do. They just don’t know what they’re called. In its 2010 annual report on email security and awareness, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) discovered …

Virtualization has been a growing trend in business computing over the last few years.  Companies are able to use virtualization to reduce costs and improve efficiency.  What started at the server level is also infiltrating desktop computing, with virtualized desktops …

A research team from two Californian universities has developed what it believes will be a game changing approach to defeating spam. The researchers used a captured spam bot to analyze a sample of the spam emails that it produced and …

It has been a big year for the internet with social networks continuing to grow at an amazing pace, search engines scrambling to keep pace with user demand for fresh news, and as always spam and malware causing havoc around …

Project Honey Pot announced earlier this month a dubious achievement. It had attracted its one billionth spam message. The ejunk purported to be from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and informed its recipient: “After the last annual calculation of your …

A new report by security researchers has revealed that Spain is currently the country with the most infected computers. A whopping 44.5% of all computers in that country are infected with malware and part of a botnet.  The United States …