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Article | 5/11/2012 In Pictures: 20 notorious worms, viruses and botnets
The earliest worms and viruses were created for geeky fun and did little harm - oh, how times have changed. Here are 20 worms, viruses and botnets tha...
Article | 14/05/2011 Zeus leaks give tools to researchers, attackers
The source code and a manual to the popular crimeware creation kit Zeus has been leaked, perhaps giving defenders additional tools to fight infections...
Article | 10/12/2010 Group used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks
PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationsh...
Article | 2/09/2010 Botnet takedown may yield valuable data
Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsib...
Article | 12/05/2010 Guilty plea after botnet tested with DDoS on ISP
The second man charged in 2006 computer attacks on The Planet and T35 Hosting has agreed to plead guilty.
Article | 29/04/2010 New Storm worm may not last long
A new variant of the Storm worm has emerged, but it does not appear to be as well-designed as its older relative, according to computer security resea...
Article | 29/04/2010 Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire
A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential custome...
Article | 16/04/2010 Zeus botnet exploits unpatched PDF flaw
The Zeus botnet is now using an unpatched flaw in Adobe's PDF document format to infect users with malicious code, security researchers said today.
Article | 11/03/2010 After takedown, botnet-linked ISP Troyak resurfaces
Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying t...
Article | 11/03/2010 Zeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out
Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run ...
Article | 5/03/2010 FBI embeds cyber-investigators in Ukraine, Estonia
Hoping to catch cybercrooks, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun embedding agents with law enforcement agencies in Estonia, the Ukraine...
Article | 3/03/2010 Spanish police take down massive Mariposa botnet
Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a major botnet network of infected computers.
Article | 25/02/2010 Court order helps Microsoft tear down Waledac botnet
With the help of a U.S. federal judge, Microsoft has struck a blow against one of the Internet's worst sources of spam: the notorious Waledac botnet.
Article | 1/03/2010 Microsoft to target other botnets with legal weapon
Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike...
Article | 19/02/2010 Botnet revelation shows darker underbelly of malware
Information gathered about a newly discovered botnet called Kneber indicates that multiple infections by different malware on the same host could work...

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