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- The Kelihos botnet is down but Macs are still in danger - This week was big enough for Microsoft and Kaspersky because of the shutdown of the Kelihos botnet. It was widely discussed because Microsoft was able to initiate an individual defendant in their US court case this time. September 29, 2011
- Google redirect hijacker - Google redirect hijacker is malicious software. If infected hijacker may redirect affected Internet users’ search results on Google, Yahoo! and Bing to completely nonsense and gibberish sites that show mass of advertisements. Moreover, many its victims ca September 22, 2011
- Spam takes over social networks and mobiles - As email spam start to decrease researchers are discussing the reasons of this phenomenon. It seems like spammers are more concentrated to spreading spam on social networks and mobile channels. January 10, 2011
- The biggest cyber security stories of 2010. Part 1 - The year 2010 is gone and it’s time to take a look what happened during the year in cyber security. Computer Security The 2010 was not a secure year. The summer was marked with massive attack which affected more than 100,000 websites. December 31, 2010
- Spam statistics of third-quarter 2010 - In a report which is done by Panda Security 95 percent of all e-mails during the third quarter is spam. 55 percent of them came from 10 countries, such as, India, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, South Korea, Vietnam, United States, Kazakhstan, Indonesia October 1, 2010
- Hack is Wack: Symantec and Snoop Dogg teamed up to launch a cybercrime rap contest - Recently Symantec and well known rapper Snoop Dogg announced a new challenge that requires people’s creativity and love for music. September 2, 2010
- Online identity theft is not a problem for cybercriminals at all - It is usual to think that phishing and identity theft includes only the theft of funds. This is not quite true. Information is more valuable in this case. It allows them to create and sell illegal documents. August 24, 2010
- ISPs can also help improve cyber security - Cybercrime is not news nowadays. It’s happening all the time on Internet and it affects all users that surf in a World Wide Web. One of the most popular tools for distributing malware and commit a cybercrime is botnets. Through them hackers earn lots of m August 14, 2010
- British bank is robbed online by malware gang - After the trojan attack British bank lost $1m. Malware gang breached bank’s security and compromised accounts maintained with a UK bank. August 11, 2010
- KOOBFACE Bot Uses Fake YouTube Pages - Recently detected fake YouTube pages are a common feature of the KOOBFACE bot. By using these rogue YouTube sites user is forced to install the “codec” which is needed for playing the video which is supposedly from a “hidden camera“. August 3, 2010
- 123greetings.com is a new ZeuS Crimeware Campaigners Target - One more malicious attempt to force users lose their vigilance and make them believe in unreliable information was recently discovered. ZeuS crimeware campaigners use 123greetings.com ecard-themed campaign in attempt to bait users to “enjoy their ecard”. July 21, 2010
- Trusteer Warns of Botnets Attacking UK Banks - Recently Trusteer reported about malwares that are created specially for exact countries. This time the company discovered about the botnets that try to attack UK banks. July 2, 2010
- Renting a botnet costs $67 a day - Computer infections probably mean only annoying pop-ups for you but on the scammers’ point of view it is a type of business. The idea of cyber marketplace for malware and stolen data is neither new nor surprising. Yet, the more time passes by, the more or May 28, 2010
- Google's Research on Spam - Despite researchers effort to make sure that spam disappear from its existence it seems like it is not working at all. According to Google's e-mail filtering division Postini, the volume of unsolicited email in the first quarter was around 6 percent highe April 16, 2010
- Mariposa Botnet is Closed and Attackers Are Arrested - Spanish executive arrested three men that had Mariposa botnet under control. It is thought that Mariposa controlled 12.7 million computers over the world. March 3, 2010
- Top 10 TLDs Used by Botnets For CnC - Gunter Ollmann, who is currently works VP of Research at Damballa company, wants to share an information with the rest of the world related to the command and control (CnC) channels used and abused by criminal botnet operators. February 19, 2010
- Top 10 U.S. Botnet Threats - Damballa, an online security company based in Atlanta, Georgia, has recently published a list of 10 most active botnets in the United States. The list contains the names of the most widely spread online security threats as well as the number of computers July 28, 2009
- Remove Conficker.E, Conficker worm removal help - Conficker.E is the most famous computer infection of the last two years. It is widely spread around the world and it distributes other malware. July 16, 2009
- Botnets Keep Spam Levels Rising up - MessageLabs, one of security research companies, reported 90.4% of email messages being spam. The levels were reached in May and remained the same in June. This is the highest number since 2007. July 3, 2009
