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Twitter used as command centre to control botnet
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
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
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
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
News Professors discuss the behaviour of your less-than-average security threat by controlling the Torpig botnet.
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Police investigating botnet attacks on UK government
News Security vendor Finjan says that a huge Ukrainian botnet has affected corporate and government computers in the UK.
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‘Zombie Macs’ launching botnet attacks
News Mac malware is nothing new, but Symantec researchers say this is the first example of a Mac botnet carrying out DoS attacks.
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Linux routers and modems targeted by ‘Psybot’
News Researchers estimate that 100,000 users could be part of a botnet targeting badly-configured Linux modems and routers.
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Should the BBC botnet have hijacked 22,000 computers?
News Legal and security experts question whether the BBC did the right thing by allowing a TV programme to buy and use a botnet to control thousands of computers.
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BBC buys botnet to highlight cybercrime
News The BBC has purchased hacking software for one of its television programmes, to highlight the dangers of cybercrime.
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‘Sexy view’ worm takes first step towards mobile botnets
News A security vendor has released details of a new SMS mobile worm that uses a breakthrough propagation strategy and is targeting mobiles running the Symbian operating system.
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Microsoft takes on spam-spewing botnet
News This month Microsoft’s malicious software tool targets the botnet Srizbi, but security vendor Marshal says it is not enough.
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