Neowin News Feed for: Botnet

420,000 node botnet made from insecure embedded devices

Christopher White — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:56:10 +0000

A security "researcher" used vulnerabilities in embedded devices to create a huge botnet (dubbed Carna Botnet) that was then able to map out the Internet's IPv4 address range. Read more...

Microsoft & Symantec team up to take down Bamital botnet

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:11:17 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has teamed up with antivirus company Symantec to shut down the Bamital botnet which included a raid today on web hosting facilities in Virginia and New Jersey. Read more...

FBI announces arrest of 10 people over Butterfly Botnet

Paul Ferson — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:13:10 +0000

The FBI has confirmed the arrest of 10 people over the Butterfly Botnet; a botnet that, peaking at more than 11 million machines infected, harvesting details on bank accounts and passwords. Read more...

Microsoft settles with Kelihos botnet defendant

John Callaham — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:48:41 +0100

Microsoft has announced it has settled its case against Andrey N. Sabelnikov, which the company previously accused of being part of the now shut down Kelihos botnet. Read more...

Microsoft reaches settlement in Nitol botnet case

John Callaham — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:04:14 +0100

Microsoft has announced it has reached a settlement with the owner of a website domain that hosted the Nitol botnet. The domain owner will now help Microsoft to block PC access to the botnet. Read more...

Microsoft backhands Nitol botnet, makes it sit in the corner

John Callaham — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:34:49 +0100

Microsoft announced today that its Digital Crimes Unit got permission from a US federal court to go after 500 different versions of malware and disrupt the Nitol botnet. Read more...

Spam levels high as ever after the Grum botnet takedown

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:26:30 +0100

One month after the takedown of one of the largest botnets, levels of spam messages have returned back to “normal”. The spam industry is adapting to new ways of doing business, experts warn. Read more...

Grum botnet taken down, along with lots of spam emails

John Callaham — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:37:43 +0100

The Grum botnet, which may have been responsible for generating as much as 35 percent of spammed emails worldwide, was taken down earlier this week after being in operation for four years. Read more...

Google disputes claims of Android-based botnet

John Callaham — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:20:27 +0100

Google is disputing a recent claim from a Microsoft engineer that there is a botnet based on using malware-infected Android devices, with Google claiming that malware on PCs are to blame. Read more...

Microsoft employee finds evidence of Android botnet

John Callaham — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:10:24 +0100

A Microsoft engineer named Terry Zink has discovered evidence of a botnet using malware infected Android devices to send out spammed emails to others via Yahoo Mail. Read more...

Microsoft names two defendants in Zeus botnet case

John Callaham — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:10:03 +0100

Microsoft said this week it has named two defendants in its efforts to shut down the Zeus botnet and that it will be sending its evidence over to the FBI for review. Read more...

Google will warn users infected with DNSChanger

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:23:28 +0100

Mountain View plans to warn users visiting its services and web sites if their PC is infected. Soon the temporary servers will go down, and so the Internet connection will too. Read more...

Google subpoenaed in Microsoft Zeus botnet case

John Callaham — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:43:29 +0100

A new report claims that Google has been issued a subpoena in the ongoing Zeus botnet case by Microsoft and is asking a number of people with Google accounts to turn over documents. Read more...

Apple releases Flashback malware removal update

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:24:19 +0100

Apple has now released a Java security update for Mac OS X that is designed to get rid of most of the variants of the Flashback malware that infected hundreds of thousands of Mac PCs. Read more...

Apple planning to fix Flashback malware issue

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:11:19 +0100

Apple has posted word on its support pages that it is working on a way to remove the Flashback malware that was found on a botnet with Macintosh computers last week. Read more...

Doctor Web exposes Macintosh botnet

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:20:20 +0100

A discovery made by Doctor Web has suggested that over half a million Macintosh machines could be caught in a botnet. Read more...

Another Kelihos-based botnet shut down

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:27:09 +0100

Yet another organized botnet, this time based on the Kelihos.B malware, has been shut down. The botnet reportedly had a network that spanned over 110,000 different PCs. Read more...

Microsoft goes after Zeus botnet operations

John Callaham — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:14:48 +0100

Microsoft has announced that its Digital Crimes Unit has participated in a raid of a criminal botnet earlier this month that installed variants of the Zeus malware. Read more...

Microsoft names new defendant in Kelihos case

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:59:57 +0000

Microsoft named a new defendant in the legal case regarding the Kelihos botnet, following the dismissal of the case against the original defendants last October. Read more...

Microsoft dismisses lawsuit in Kelihos botnet case

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:12:23 +0100

Microsoft has dismissed a lawsuit and reached a settlement against the defendants who were suspected of helping to run the Kelihos botnet that Microsoft helped to shut down in September. Read more...