Archive for the ‘botnet’ Category
With ISP offline, criminal malware infections drop dramatically
On Wednesday, RSA alerted its customers to a substantial decrease within the last twenty four hours in Trojan horse activity on the Internet as the result of a key Internet host going offline. Criminal enterprises use such hosts as a common point of contact. On the front end, it is the Internet address that thousands [...]
March 10, 2010
Posted in: 201 RSA Conference, AS Troyak, Russian, Sean Brady, Zeus, Zeus Tracker, botnet, criminal organization 
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Is the Downadup/Conficker worm building a new botnet?
There’s a new Internet worm spreading that may be comparable to Melissa, Sasser, and Blaster in terms of the number of machines infected.
The worm, Downadup (also known as Win32.Conficker.B or simply “Conficker”), exploits a specially crafted RPC request vulnerability found in unpatched versions of the Windows Server service. Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch, MS08-67, [...]
January 19, 2009
Posted in: MS08-067, Patch Tuesday, Robert Vamosi, botnet, conficker, downadup, firewall, malicious server, microsoft, worm No Comments
