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March 20, 2013, 12:37PM

Exposed Devices Used as Botnet to Scan Internet

Categories: Hacks

A controversial Internet scanning project has come under fire for illegally accessing and running code on remote machines. The Internet Census 2012 project, revealed Sunday in a post to Seclists.org, discovered 420,000 embedded devices accessible using default credentials. The unnamed researcher behind the project then used the devices as a botnet to scan most of the IPv4 address space.

February 28, 2013, 4:34PM

How Much Does A Botnet Cost?

by Brian Donohue

Categories: Malware

The cost of a botnet is contingent largely upon the physical location of the malware-infected computers inside of it. Therefore, a botnet containing only American or European machines is worth more than one with machines from less prosperous nations.

February 06, 2013, 7:28PM

Botnet Operation for Dummies

by Brian Donohue

Categories: Malware

Are you a self-starter with little or no technical skills looking to join the rapidly expanding, ethically dubious cybercrime industry? If you answered yes to this question, then the do-it-yourself, HTTP-based botnet profiled on Webroot by Dancho Danchev may be just the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

January 15, 2013, 7:38PM

Virut and Waledac Botnets Spamming from Shared Machines

by Brian Donohue

Categories: Malware, SMB Security

In an analysis of Virut botnet samples, Symantec researchers observed the malware downloading Waledac variants, suggesting that the gangs responsible for each botnet may be cooperating with one another through some sort of affiliate program, or, at the very least, that the two threats coexist and function on single infected machines.

December 18, 2012, 8:24PM

Sweet Orange Exploit Kit Offers Customers Higher Infection Rates

by Brian Donohue

Categories: Malware

The newly emerging Sweet Orange Exploit Kit boasts a 10 to 25 percent infection rate and is promising to drive 150,000 unique visitors per day to the websites of its customers, according to Jeff Doty and Chris Larsen of Blue Coat Security.