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Week in review: Virus hits Iran nuclear power plant,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.
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Zeus 2 hits 100,000 UK computersNews Zeus has returned in a different guise, hitting around 100,000 UK computers in a targeted botnet attack.
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‘Funky’ Mumba botnet hits 55,000 systemsNews The Avalanche Group's Mumba botnet has stolen more than 60GB of personal data and infected 55,000 computers.
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Koobface gang starts tracking successNews The Koobface gang are checking how much of a hit their fake YouTube pages are.
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FBI captures Mariposa mastermindNews A 23-year-old Slovenian man, going by the name of Iserdo, has been arrested in connection with the Mariposa botnet.
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Malware targets UK online bankingNews Security experts have discovered two new pieces of malware, specifically targeting UK bank customers.
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Spanish police arrest Mariposa botnet ringleadersNews Three Spanish men stand accused of masterminding a botnet that infected nearly 13 million computers in 190 countries, including in many big corparations.
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Kneber botnet hits 75,000 computersNews A security firm is claiming that the Kneber botnet has infected 75,000 systems at 2,500 organisations.
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Botnets to get more intelligent in 2010News Criminals behind the huge amounts of spam are learning lessons in how to run their systems.
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‘Festi’ growing to become spambot heavyweightNews A new botnet on the scene is already spewing out billions of spam mails each day.
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Botnets want money, not to bring down the webNews But it doesn't stop the possibility of groups with more anarchic plans from taking over bots for themselves.
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Timeline: A year of the Conficker wormNews The Conficker worm is one year old, according to Trend Micro.
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