On Wednesday, the ShadowServer Foundation took the wraps off a revamped statistics page, showing how far the three main variants of Conficker have spread and the degree to which the world’s networks are infected. More than 12,000 networks, as represented by their autonomous system numbers (ASNs), show signs of infection by Conficker. The ShadowServer Foundation [...]

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Every day, approximately 89.5 billion unsolicited messages (i.e. spam) are sent by computers that have been compromised and are part of a botnet. Botnets – apart from inundating out inboxes with spam – can also be used for ulterior purposes such as executing DDoS attacks or hosting websites, so understanding the “modus operandi” and size [...]

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      Name Realmbot   Type RAT, Bot     Author Unknown     Written in C/C++     Description This is a variant of the REalmbot created by Lindem in 2006. Also here many of the typical bot functions were implemented. Services control, user control, process control, key logger (in a rather unelegant [...]

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Nice article about botnets, click fraud and spamming. You can find the original article (written by Yury Namestnikov) on www.viruslist.com. The Economics of Botnets In the past ten years, botnets have evolved from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C (command and control center) into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of [...]

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In raids throughout Germany and Austria, police closed down a web gang which stole private credit-card data and used viruses to create a network of 100,000 robot computers, Germany’s Federal Crime Office said Wednesday. In Germany, three persons were detained during the Tuesday raids on 46 homes. One was held in Austria. Many computers were [...]

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