Botnets

News Zeus has returned in a different guise, hitting around 100,000 UK computers in a targeted botnet attack.

News The Avalanche Group's Mumba botnet has stolen more than 60GB of personal data and infected 55,000 computers.

News The Koobface gang are checking how much of a hit their fake YouTube pages are.

News A 23-year-old Slovenian man, going by the name of Iserdo, has been arrested in connection with the Mariposa botnet.

News Security experts have discovered two new pieces of malware, specifically targeting UK bank customers.

News Three Spanish men stand accused of masterminding a botnet that infected nearly 13 million computers in 190 countries, including in many big corparations.

News A security firm is claiming that the Kneber botnet has infected 75,000 systems at 2,500 organisations.

News Criminals behind the huge amounts of spam are learning lessons in how to run their systems.

News A new botnet on the scene is already spewing out billions of spam mails each day.

News But it doesn't stop the possibility of groups with more anarchic plans from taking over bots for themselves.