Disruption is the best way of tackling botnet-based cybercrime, according to Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). Taking down the Waledac botnet of hijacked computers in February 2010 was a proof-of-concept strategy that Microsoft and ...
Tags: Disruption, cybercrime, Microsoft, DCU
Attackers can abuse Facebook’s phone search feature to find valid phone numbers and the name of their owners, according to security researchers. The attack is possible because Facebook doesn’t limit the number of phone number ...
Tags: Facebook, highlightedpost, Mark Zuckerberg, Phone number search, privacy
A service discovered in the criminal underground is renting access to thousands of corporate servers that have been hacked through Windows software that lets people control computers remotely over the Internet. Dedicatedexpress.com is ...
Tags: cyber security, cybercrime, hackers, hacking, Microsoft, Windows
A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from 30 major U.S. banks, according to RSA. The organisers are thought ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cyber criminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from security consultancy ...
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When 32-year-old Russian programmer Andrey N.Sabelnikov visited the U.S.for the first time in January,he had a surprise waiting for him. The surprise was an amended civil lawsuit soon to be filed against him by Microsoft,which alleged he ...
Tags: Russian Coder, Microsoft, Botnet, U.S.District Court
A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The malware, nicknamed “Dockster,” is a backdoor that allows an attacker to control the victim’s ...
Tags: Apple, botnets, Dockster, highlightedpost, malware, Web attacks
Internet communication platform Skype has been hit by worm malware that could infect Windows PCs. When users of the communication platform click on an instant message that says"lol is this your new profile pic"they instantly download ...
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Authorities in several countries have arrested a total of 10 people suspected of setting up a botnet of hijacked computers to steal personal information from millions of victims. The arrests were made in the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
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IDG News Service-In one of the photos,the dark-haired,bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen,perhaps puzzled at what's happening.Minutes later,he cuts his computer's connection,realizing he has been discovered. The nation of ...
Tags: Georgia, cyber-spying, Russia-Based Hacker
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
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Trojan malware has hit 100,000 devices using the Google Android operating system(OS)in China,say security researchers. The Trojan,dubbed MMarketPay.A,is designed to purchase apps and content without the consent of the device user,running ...
Tags: Android, Trojan Malware, Applications, Security
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google's Android OS, Microsoft researcher, botnet