Tag Archives: cybercrime

A holiday themed spam attack that exploited the White House resulted in the theft of large amounts of data from many different government agencies. Security experts say the attack, launched by a variant of the Zeus botnet called Kneber, hid …

Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of over 100,000 email addresses from AT&T customers who own iPads. The two men, Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, and 25-year-old Andrew Auernheimer of Fayetteville, Ark, are accused of …

The Rustock botnet has roared back to life after its holiday vacation. Researchers detected the sleeping giant’s return on January 10th when global spam volumes increased by 98% in just 24 hours. The botnet, which went through some rough times …

At a recent conference, the UK’s Defense Ministry revealed that one of its top officials was hit with a spear phishing attack in 2009 that was designed to steal classified documents and compromise the country’s national security. Officials say the …

According to the Dutch and Russian authorities who arrested him late last month, George Avanesov, thought to be the brains behind the infamous Bredolab botnet, made $140,000 a month alone just by renting and selling out parts of the botnet …

A Scottish man has pleaded guilty to his role in a cybercrime ring. Authorities say Matthew Anderson used spam to distribute malware  designed to steal financial information. His scheme, which began in 2005, targeted UK businesses.           “This organised online …

Prankware is software designed to irritate its victims but it is relatively harmless. Over the years it has largely lost its popularity among hackers, as many of them have become more interested in producing revenue streams than stroking their egos. …

There’s an interesting post over at PCPro about botnets. Apparently cybercriminals are beginning to realize that bigger isn’t always better. The huge botnets they favored are hard to hide-it’s kind of like trying to hide an elephant behind a palm …

Six people, five men and one woman, have been arrested for their parts in a huge phishing ring. UK authorities say that the group has so far stolen over $550,000 and compromised over 20,000 credit card and bank accounts but …

A Russian ISP known to be friendly to cybercriminals has been knocked offline. PROXIEZ-NET was known to be hosting over a dozen command and control servers for the massive Zeus botnet. Zeus is an information thief that targets banking info …