Archive for the 'botnet' Category
08 17th, 2009
The PC Doctor wrote an intriguing post today on
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Twitter has been spammed, DDoS’ed, and knocked offline, and now it has been used as the command center for a botnet. A researcher last week was looking for clues about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Twitter found a Twitter profile that was being used to send updates and malware to bots in an […]
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08 17th, 2009
Darknet wrote an intriguing post today on
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Ah Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time it’s being used as the command channel for a Botnet.
The normal method for controlling Botnets is via an […]
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07 17th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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For the first time criminal hackers may have succeeded in creating a network of “zombie” cellphones, infected with software that can be used to send spam or attack websites without the owners’ knowledge.
Botnets, as such networks are known, are usually made up of infected personal computers and are used to make money from spam or extortion. […]
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07 9th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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A little over three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause […]
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06 29th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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Just about everyone these days knows that the internet can be a pretty dangerous place to browse if you are not careful. With all the trojans, viruses, infected websites, scams, it seems that it is near impossible to keep yourself completely safe unless you just keep your computer unplugged from the internet. With all these […]
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