... for control based on P2P principles. "You don't have to have a person looking after it, the botnets can now look after themselves," says MessageLabs' Paul Wood, who notes that the ... . The company has detected 5 million PCs that are now working on behalf of the botnets. Elsewhere in the spam ecosystem, 2009 has seen defences such as CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing ...

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Gadi Evron drew my attention in an article for Dark Reading to a piece in IT Pro by Asavin Wattanajantra. The piece quotes Dr. Steve Marsh, of the UK's Cabinet Office (the Office of Cyber Security, to be precise) as saying that botnet operators are interested in money-generating attacks on the private sector, not causing damage to "national networks". You might recall that I made a ...

... more than 40 people involved in countering internet abuse working in three teams. The abuse department analyses around 2.5 million emails per month for indications of potential problems. Since the initiative was launched in February, almost 50,000 customers have been informed that their computer is infected with a virus or trojan. Certifiedbug.com Germany to coordinate fight against botnets

The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users. Botnets have long used a variety of configurations, in part to disguise their control mechanisms -- see What a Botnet Looks Like. But as user-friendly but insecure applications continue to become available -- especially social ...

Online security researchers working to cripple botnets of malware-infected computers have occasionally run into ... given time, and also because several computers can hide behind each address. Additionally, many botnets are operated by clever cyber criminals who constantly ... encrypted Twitter messages to spread itself to new hosts. Once botnets reach a sufficient size, say experts, they are frequently ...

... anti-virus useless A new form of attack that installs a rootkit directly onto a computer’s Bios system would render anti-virus software useless, researchers have warned. • Jose Nazario on Botnets and the History of DDoS Attacks Over the course of a few days in February 2000, a lone hacker was able to bring some of the Web’s larger sites to their knees, using just a few dozen ...

And the game of cat and mouse continues, with the good guys looking decidedly mouse-like at the moment. I’m sure this is good for us, on the whole. It forces us to continue improving the state of the programming art, in much the same way that disease forces us to continue improving the medical arts. But it’s also a major pain in the posterior.

Some script kiddy's botnet is slamming the site again this morning. They're trying to make comments, trying to inject something, I guess. Maybe it's just a super-weak DoS attack. I don't know yet. I think everything is pretty solid right now but I haven't looked at the server. If the site is slow or crashes, this is the reason. read more

According to the MessageLabs intelligence annual security report for 2009 from Symantec, cybercriminals have sharpened their survival skills and operated a volume and variety approach over the past 12 months. It showed that there was a high of 90.4 per cent of detected spam in May, and a low 73.3 per cent in February. Paul Wood, MessageLabs intelligence senior analyst at Symantec, claimed tha...

... The report highlights the increasing sophistication of traditional threats such as botnets, scareware, compromised legitimate Web sites and blended ... Specific 2010 security predictions from M86 Labs are as follows: Botnets grow in sophistication: Botnets continue to be a major problem, driving ... of spam output and mass Web site attacks. Botnets have moved away from traditional IRC-based command and ...

... Real Host in August 2009 appeared to make botnets re-evaluate and enhance their command and control backup strategy ... hours, rather than weeks or months. It is predicted that in 2010 botnets will become more autonomous and intelligent, with each node containing an inbuilt self-sufficient coding in order to coordinate and extend its own survival.Botnets continued to rule the cyber security landscape ...

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