'Chameleon Botnet' takes $6-million-a-month in ad money
An article from Cnet news about Botnet : A newly discovered botnet has found a way to siphon cash from advertisers. Spider.io, a security researcher, yesterday announced that it has discovered a new botnet, called Chameleon, that's targeting "at least" 202 Web sites. The botnet is made up of over 120,000 host machines running Windows, […]
Exposed Devices Used as Botnet to Scan Internet
An article from threat post about botnet: A controversial Internet scanning project has come under fire for illegally accessing and running code on remote machines. The Internet Census 2012 project, revealed Sunday in a post to Seclists.org, discovered 420,000 embedded devices accessible using default credentials. The unnamed researcher behind the project then used the devices […]
Botnet master abuses Facebook for pocket money, researchers reveal
An interesting story from Naked Security on botnets: A Chinese hacker’s main job may well be running a botnet of malware-clotted zombie PCs, but there’s always time left in the day for selling fake Likes, apparently. It is not every day that remorseful confessions over lapsed adherence to the Five Precepts of Buddhism help researchers […]
Spammers Stay Busy Despite Pushdo Botnet Hit
From the shutdown of McColo to last week's disruption of the Pushdo botnet, spammers have continually found ways to stay in business.
Nearly 20 of the 30 command and control (CnC)servers associated with Pushdo were taken offline last week due to efforts by security vendor LastLine. The servers were supported by eight hosting providers, some of which did not respond to the vendor's requests for action.