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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

The FBI is getting info from Microsoft to help them go after the person allegedly in charge of the Rustock botnet that had infected millions of PCs all over the world earlier this year. More...

Microsoft has been diligently pursing the Rustock botnet and earlier this year they took down the Rustock botnet which was responsible for as many as 30 billion spam messages per day. It was yet another... More...

Yesterday we reported on the seizing of hard drives and other equipment belonging to the Rustock botnet. This was a major victory for Microsoft. Email addresses were found on the hard drives. In addition, there... More...

Microsoft has been known in the past in dealing with the takedown of certain botnets. Earlier this year they took down the Rustock botnet which was responsible for as many as 30 billion spam messages... More...

Microsoft has unleashed its legal dragnet in an attempt to take down the Rustock botnet. According to WSJ, the botnet, which consists of approximately 150,000 computers around the globe, is capable of sending 30 billion... More...

The BBC points us to a rather lengthy 240 page report, published by Microsoft, called the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. Microsoft collected data throughout the first half of this year and found that the United... More...

As Neowin reported earlier this week, WordPress blogs were compromised on what was originally thought to be GoDaddy servers.  Neowin spoke exclusively with Todd Redfoot, a security expert at GoDaddy, who explained the exploit. GoDaddy reassures... More...

The BBC is reporting that Zeus, a virus that steals your online bank account information is on the rise. Trusteer says of the 5.5 million computers that they monitor, one in 3,000 is infected with... More...

About a year ago, a group of security researchers in Toronto affiliated with the Munk Centre for International Studies uncovered the existence of an international botnet called Ghostnet, and discovered that it may be a... More...

Microsoft announced this week, that together with industry partners, it has executed a major botnet takedown of Waledac, a large and well-known “spambot.” Botnets are networks of compromised computers controlled by "bot herders" or "bot masters"... More...

The minds behind the Asprox botnet are retaliating against visitors to their phishing page who put profanity or other flagged keywords into the phishers' phony log-in form instead of legitimate data. The phishing page contains... More...

The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit identified a large botnet when they arrested a 19 year old Dutch man last week. The Unit asked Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, to... More...

ENISA, a pan-European agency designed to promote closer co-ordination on information security, is calling for a revamp of cyber-security laws and best practices in a bid to combat the growing economic impact of cyber attacks... More...

Its malware scanner cleaned more then 500k PCs infected with the bot in '07 Microsoft today took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users... More...

Robert Matthew Bentley, 21, Panama City, Florida, has plead guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud and computer fraud. Bentley was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola, Florida in November 2007. The case... More...

The Aladdin eSafe Content Security Response Team (CSRT) has uncovered new details surrounding the eBay botnet attack first discovered on Monday. Researchers have found that the attack is primarily targeted at UK users of eBay... More...

Would-be iPhone owners are being targeted by a 7,500-strong zombie botnet, security experts have warned. PandaLabs said that buying an iPhone online could cost surfers a lot more than the advertised price if their computers... More...

New email monitoring data has revealed a "sudden" 30 per cent reduction in global spam volumes over the past week. Security firm SoftScan believes that the drop is most likely to be the result of... More...

It's dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software's Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites stares at the screen of a "dirty box," a Microsoft Windows machine infected with the self-replicating... More...

The first wave of malicious attacks against the MS06-040 vulnerability is underway, using malware that hijacks unpatched Windows machines for use in IRC-controlled botnets. The attacks, which started late Aug. 12, use a variant of... More...

Adware maker 180solutions claims to be a key witness in the case against three Dutchmen accused of running a botnet which controlled 1.5m PCs. The group allegedly used the largest zombie army ever created to... More...