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Apple Mac Flashback botnet now numbers over 600,000
Despite Apple releasing a patch for Java, the Flashback Trojan has infected 600,000 Macs, according to reports. As a result, there are 600,000 Macs being remotely controlled by the growing Mac botnet, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The majority of the botnet computers are located in the United States…
Flashback botnet: The end of the Mac’s malware immunity?
A new variant on Flashback malware exploits a Java vulnerability to install on Macs without any user interaction. Who’s vulnerable, how can Mac owners protect themselves, and what does this mean for the future of Mac malware? For the better part of two decades, Mac users have believed themselves largely…
Kelihos gang building a new botnet, researchers say
The cybercriminal gang that operated the recently disabled Kelihos botnet has already begun building a new botnet with the help of a Facebook worm, according to security researchers from Seculert. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, announced that they took control of the 110,000…
Kelihos botnet mark II taken down by security firms
A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the second version of the Kelihos botnet, which is significantly bigger than the one shut down by Microsoft and its partners in September 2011. The Kelihos botnet, also…
Security Researchers Take Down ‘Kelihos Botnet’
Security researchers from four different organizations brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals’ spamming network into a fatal weakness. Experts from CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, the Honeynet Project and Kaspersky Lab crippled the second-coming of the Kelihos botnet on March 21 by “sinkholing” about 118,000 bot-infected…
Microsoft, U.S. Marshals Raid Offices in Botnet Probe
Microsoft employees, accompanied by United States marshals, raided two nondescript office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois, aiming to disrupt one of the most pernicious forms of online crime today — botnets, or groups of computers that help harvest bank account passwords and other personal information from millions of other computers….
Microsoft hits Zeus botnet cybercrime servers and domains
Microsoft and several of its partners have disrupted a number of cybercrime rings that used the Zeus malware to steal an estimated $100 million over the last five years. The company said a consolidated legal case has been filed in the US against those allegedly responsible that for the first…
Armageddon DDoS botnet using Apache Killer exploit
DDoS botnet Armageddon integrates a relatively new exploit known as Apache Killer in the malware’s latest version, distributed denial-of-service mitigation vendor Arbor Networks have announced this week. The Apache Killer exploit was released in August 2011. It exploits a vulnerability in the Apache web server by sending a specially crafted…
Modified ZeuS botnet Trojan no longer needs C&C servers
The ZeuS Trojan has been modified by cybercriminals in a way that means it no longer relies on command and control (CC) servers for receiving instructions, according to Symantec security researchers. ZeuS is very popular in the cybercriminal world because it’s capable of stealing a wide variety of information, documents…
