Virus Bulletin 2007 Presentations
My talented colleague Sergei Shevchenko and myself (Kurt Baumgartner) will be presenting “Last minute technical papers” at this year’s Virus Bulletin 2007. If you’re not registered yet, you have a few...
View Article250,000 bots later…
…John Schiefer is pleading guilty to four federal charges related to fraud and wiretapping. Mr. Schiefer is only 26 years old: Los Angeles hacker to plead guilty to infecting 250,000 computers to steal...
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A Zbot Botnet Dubbed The “Kneber” Botnet
Zeus is an extremely effective bot builder kit designed and developed to be sold in underground markets as a cybercrime kit, enabling buyers to easily build identity theft related spyware that evades...
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Mariposa Wings Clipped
Spanish law enforcement nabbed three operators of the Mariposa botnet: “Authorities identified them by their Internet handles and their ages: “netkairo,” 31; “jonyloleante,” 30; and “ostiator,” 25.”...
View ArticleConficker Is Down But Not Out
Two years after it first appeared, the Conficker worm still poses a threat even though it has been relatively quiet as of late. Since it first emerged, the Conficker Working Group, a team of experts...
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