Botnets

News The UK is in the top five for spam relaying, whilst overall spam levels look likely to get back to normal.

News A new report suggests next year’s botnets will hide within files rather than coming through nasty downloads.

News The Kroxxu botnet is believed to have affected over one million web users.

News In the third quarter, more malware was produced a day than ever before, McAfee says.

News Servers running the Koobface botnet's C&C centre have been taken down, but the operators have already earned over $2 million from the malicious network.

News Spam has fallen in recent months, largely thanks to some good work from law enforcement agencies.

News Dutch authorities have shut down the Bredolab botnet that had infected over 30 million systems.

News Early October saw a significant drop in spam, which may have been caused by the closure of a spam affiliate named Spamit.

News The past week was filled with intrigue, action and big money as a virus hits an Iranian nuclear power planet, the British police crack down on the Zeus online bank thieves and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer misses out on a wad of cash.