Botnets

News The Conficker worm is one year old, according to Trend Micro.

News Halloween is again a target for cyber criminals, so be careful where you click this weekend, Trend Micro has warned.

News The authors of the Cutwail botnet are fighting back to get more market share.

News Using IRC channels is old school. Cybercriminals are now using microblogging to tell compromised computers what to do.

News An increase in botnets and zombie PCs has lead to more spam being sent out, McAfee has said.

News The owners of the Waledac and Conficker botnets collaborated to make money in a joint venture, says a new report.

News Why would a botnet controller order his bots to kill the operating systems of thousands of PCs?

News Professors discuss the behaviour of your less-than-average security threat by controlling the Torpig botnet.

News Security vendor Finjan says that a huge Ukrainian botnet has affected corporate and government computers in the UK.

News Mac malware is nothing new, but Symantec researchers say this is the first example of a Mac botnet carrying out DoS attacks.