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…

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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…

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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…

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