The Troyak ISP has found a new upstream provider, returning connectivity to Zeus servers
Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.
90 of 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight
Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.
Agents are working cybercases with local law enforcement
Hoping to catch cybercrooks, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun embedding agents with law enforcement agencies in Estonia, the Ukraine and the Netherlands.
The Mariposa botnet ran under the radar but was one of the biggest ever
Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a major botnet network of infected computers.
Acknowledges it's too soon to judge its fight against Waledac bots
Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centers.
Microsoft says Verisign's .com registry had 277 command-and-control domains, now disabled
With the help of a U.S. federal judge, Microsoft has struck a blow against one of the Internet's worst sources of spam: the notorious Waledac botnet.
Kneber was built using a well-established toolkit for aggregating botnets called ZeuS that has been around for years
Information gathered about a newly discovered botnet called Kneber indicates that multiple infections by different malware on the same host could work together as a sophisticated mechanism to give all the malware a better survival rate.
The aim of the odd attack is unknown but it's not knocking the sites offline, the Shadowserver Foundation says
More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet, according to security researchers.
Chalk up one for the defenders: a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet.
For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it.
Hacked Web site put criminals on Amazon's EC2 servers
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure.
Zbot attack remains biggest e-mail threat, says researcher
A massive spam campaign that poses as a message from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asking people to register for H1N1 vaccinations remains a big problem today, a security researcher said.
Employing just one strategy won't cover you
Banging the drum for security awareness never gets old. As much as CSOs try to get folks to bone up on safe practices (both online and in the office), there are always going to be some who need reminding.
After seizing control of a spam-spewing botnet, FireEye hands the keys to the botnet gurus
An effort is underway to clean up tens of thousands of computers infected with malicious software known for churning out thousands of spam messages per hour.
McAfee security report examines cyberattacks that seem concentrated on a specific country
Nations that want to disrupt their enemies' banking, media and government resources don't need their own technical skills; they can simply order botnet attack services from cybercriminals.
The security company contacted ISPs and registrars to help shut down the spam-spewing botnet
A computer security company known for battling botnets moved last week to try to shut down a persistent spam player.
