Mining Botnet Conscripts 5000 Android Devices
A fast-moving botnet that appeared over the weekend has already infected thousands of Android devices with potentially destructive malware that mines digital coins on behalf...
Surviving Electmageddon: Protecting against a wave of DNS outages
This is a re-print of an excellent article posted this week regarding setting up multiple DNS addresses. To protect your website and you computer's...
Shellshock botnet targets Akamai, as well as US DoD networks.
Attackers were quick to capitalized on the Shellshock Bash command interpreter bug disclosed yesterday. Constructing a botnet that is rapidly try to infect other servers, according to...
Akamai Warns of IptabLes and IptabLex Infection on Linux, DDoS attacks
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 3, 2014 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications,...
WANTED: Russian Evgeniy Bogachev sought over cybercrime botnet
The US has charged a Russian man with being behind a major cybercrime operation that affected individuals and businesses worldwide. Evgeniy Bogachev, said to be...
Further Details on the Zeus BotNet Raid
Microsoft, working with others in the financial services and computer security industry, has disrupted a number of botnets being used by the Zeus malware family....
Microsoft Leads Raids on Botnets and Hosting services. [VIDEO]
Microsoft employees, accompanied by United States marshals, raided two nondescript office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois on Friday, aiming to disrupt one of the most...
Former Antivirus employee named Mastermind behind Botnet according to Microsoft.
Microsoft has named a 31-year-old Russian, who used to work at a firm producing anti-virus and firewall software, believing him to be responsible for attacks...