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Storm Worm Back From the Dead
Published on 28 Apr, 2010 at 12:29 in Cloud | Viewed 59 times | No Comments
The infamous Storm Worm has returned from the dead, according to researchers with CA. Storm was once responsible for 20 percent of the world’s spam but began to decline in 2007 when Microsoft undertook a massive cleaning operation. Eventually, the botnet was allegedly destroyed.
CA researchers claim that they have found a new botnet that bears a number of characteristics of the Storm botnet and is currently sending a…
Botnet Server Escapes to China
Published on 23 Apr, 2010 at 8:26 in Cloud | Viewed 471 times | No Comments
Last week, security experts based in Hong Kong succeeded in taking out a key piece of the Koobface botnet, only to have it pop up in China. Koobface, which uploads stolen user names and passwords to a remote server, was taken down by the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) last week.
However, the cyber criminals running Koobface merely moved the server to a hosting company in…
Researchers Find New Botnet
Published on 14 Apr, 2010 at 7:53 in Cloud | Viewed 515 times | No Comments
Security researchers with Arbor Networks have found a new botnet that consists of computers infected with a Trojan designed to enable a remote user to download malware onto the machine. The researchers found that the Trojan, called Heloag, is downloaded via one of two possible domains and then loads itself into the MS Windows directory.
The Trojan also assigns itself a registry key which allows the malware to…
Africa Could become World’s Cyber-crime Capital
Published on 6 Apr, 2010 at 8:15 in Cloud | Viewed 1,145 times | No Comments
Russia and China are often considered the two nations leading in cyber crime, but there is a runner-up that could take the leading spot in Internet misdeeds: Africa.
Cybersecurity experts estimate 80 percent of computers on the African continent are already infected with viruses and other malicious software, according to Foreign Policy. The combination of housing the world’s most vulnerable computers and a majority of a population lacking basic…
DHS to Provide In-Depth Look at Botnet
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working to publish a report next month on the global efforts to combat it, according to Computer World. The report looks at the Conficker Working Group’s efforts to meet the threat.
“We said, ‘This was a very good example of the private sector, globally, working together to try to solve a cybersecurity…
“Our Best Hope is that the Enemy is Drowning in Data,” researcher says
Published on 25 Mar, 2010 at 7:35 in Cyber | Viewed 971 times | No Comments
The Zeus Trojan is well known for its use in cyber crime, allowing cyber criminals to steal millions of dollars every year. However, cyber crime is not the only capability that Zeus provides miscreants.
The amount of money presently being stolen by cyber criminals is astronomical, and yet, relatively little outcry or action has taken place. The money gleaned from…
If The Hat Is Black…
Much of cybersecurity is based on thinking like criminals. Security consultants, pen testers and software experts make our computers safer based on their expectations of what a hacker will do. One security expert, Robert Hansen, CEO of SecTheory, is bridging the gap between the blackhat and the professionals.
Hansen has been spending months delving into the world of the blackhat. Gaining…
Microsoft’s Waledac Take-Down Could Provide Model for Future
Published on 17 Mar, 2010 at 10:00 in Cyber | Viewed 377 times | No Comments
Earlier this year, The New New Internet reported that Microsoft used a combination of court actions and technical prowess to disrupt the Waledac botnet. According to program manager Jeff Williams, the take-down “effectively decimated” the botnet, severing communications between around 90,000 infected computers and the control servers.
“While it is still too early to know the entire…
Short-Lived Victory in Zeus Botnet Disruption
Published on 12 Mar, 2010 at 9:17 in Cloud | Viewed 466 times | No Comments
Earlier this week, The New New Internet reported on the disruption of Internet access to computers that made up the Zeus botnet. However, the victory appears to be short-lived, as security researchers have already found that a third of the computers have been re-linked to command servers.
Thirty of the approximate 100 servers that were disrupted have now come back on-line after the ISP found a new provider….
Zeus Botnet Disrupted
Published on 11 Mar, 2010 at 7:45 in Cloud | Viewed 344 times | No Comments
In recent weeks, there has been a marked increase in efforts to disrupt botnets, with Microsoft utilizing legal channels and Spanish authorities arresting botnet administrators. Approximately one quarter of the computers currently part of the Zeus botnet have been knocked off-line after two Eastern European network providers cut off service to “their downstream customers,” according to an article on TheRegister.
Mary Landesman, researcher with ScanSafe who…
