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Timeline: A year of the Conficker worm
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News The Conficker worm is one year old, according to Trend Micro.
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Watch out for the Zeus botnet this Halloween
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Halloween is again a target for cyber criminals, so be careful where you click this weekend, Trend Micro has warned.
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Botnet creators return with Bredolab trojan
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News The authors of the Cutwail botnet are fighting back to get more market share.
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Twitter used as command centre to control botnet
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Using IRC channels is old school. Cybercriminals are now using microblogging to tell compromised computers what to do.
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Zombie increase drives spam spike
By Richard Goodwin published
News An increase in botnets and zombie PCs has lead to more spam being sent out, McAfee has said.
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Conficker and Waledac botnet owners were partners
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News The owners of the Waledac and Conficker botnets collaborated to make money in a joint venture, says a new report.
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Zeus botnet ‘nuked’ 100,000 Windows PCs
By Asavin Wattanajantra published
News Why would a botnet controller order his bots to kill the operating systems of thousands of PCs?
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Boffins observe Torpig botnet
By David Neal published
News Professors discuss the behaviour of your less-than-average security threat by controlling the Torpig botnet.
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