Damballa which is a security company specializing in cyber threats against the enterprise and service provider market, released its report that has analysis of botnet activity. This report is based on information from various sensors throughout the world. Some key point in the report can be summarized as follows: 1. Botnets managed to increase their [...]
READ MORE »Predictions is tough business – sometimes you get it right, mostly wrong and people never forget wrong. This year however, from all that I have been reading it seems DDOS / Botnets business and the business to protect from such attacks would be gaining more mainstream attention. DDoS became almost a household name with Wikileaks [...]
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Rik Ferguson is a Solutions architech for Trend Micro. He has written a decent 3 part post on The History of Botnets. The History of Botnets Part I The History of Botnets Part II The History of Botnets Part III Rik’s page on Business Computing World (UK)
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Members of the Anonymous Operation: Payback plan to launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against the RIAA website today, Friday October 29 at 4.00 pm EST. After the Tuesday shutdown of the LimeWire client, Anonymous is mighty angry. Anonymous, whose members also include people from the 4chan “/b/” bulletin board, does not usually announce and [...]
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In December 2009, the popular networking site Twitter faced serious problems as its DNS records were compromised. Visitors to the site saw a message informing them that Twitter had been hacked by “The Iranian Cyber Army.” Although third party applications functioned properly, the website itself remained down. A month later, Chinese search engine, Baidu, was [...]
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Written by Faisal Khan
Please Read Legal Disclaimer at the end of the article. Q. What is a Bot? A. A bot is a shortened terminology for the word robot – which in the computer networks world means ‘automatic’. Anything that does a specific function automatically, would be deemed a robot – or a bot for short. Most of [...]
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If you got an email from the IRS informing you that your payment had been rejected, what would you do? A majority would click on the link provided in the email to rectify the problem… a majority did so and had all their secure information stolen. The Zeus Trojan horse, first spotted in the middle [...]
READ MORE »Botnet activity is on the increase. The recently discovered Maazben botnet is now rapidly increasing its share of malicious traffic. More on this here.
READ MORE »A relatively short article in The Register on botnets that are used to send spam emails.
READ MORE »Botnets the herds of zombie (compromised) computers that together cause distributed denial of service attacks, need to be curtailed, but service providers have always thought of this as not their problem. Well, that notion could be changing soon. Working together service providers could put a noose around the botnets and strangling their bandwidth. Read more [...]
READ MORE »It seems IRC is no longer the only channel that Bot Operators are using as far as controlling their bot herds. Previously it was reported that Twitter was used (a first in itself), now, it seemed Google Groups are being used. Read more about this interesting development here.
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