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Coreflood Takedown Raises Questions About Offensive Actions Against Botnets

For just about as long as there have been botnets, there’s been an ongoing discussion in the security and law-enforcement communities about the legality and ethics of taking proactive steps to disrupt the botnets’ operations and even to remove the bots from infected machines. Until very recently, those discussions have been theoretical, but now the government has asked a court for permission to clean millions of Coreflood bot-infected PCs, moving the questions from the realm of “what if” to “now what.”

Inside a Google Data Center

Google is well-known for its worldwide network of data centers, in which it holds not just the company’s own data, but the sensitive information of its corporate and consumer customers. In this video, Google gives a rare behind-the-scenes look at the physical and data security measures that the company uses to protect that data.

Glass Dragon: China’s Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful Defense

The official line in Washington D.C. is that there’s a new Cold War brewing, with an ascendant China in the place of the old Soviet Union, and cyberspace as the new theater of war. But work done by an independent security researcher suggests that the Chinese government is woefully unprepared to fend off cyber attacks on its own infrastructure.

FBI Warns of Massive Wire Fraud Scams

by Dennis Fisher

The FBI is warning businesses about an ongoing spate of attacks that are stealing millions of dollars from companies through unauthorized bank transfers to Chinese companies. The fraudulent wire transfers are not a new tactic, but the FBI says the current round of attacks is notable in that virtually all of the transfers are going to shell companies based in China and have cost U.S. businesses $11 million.

The Underground Economy: SMS Fraud

by Dennis Fisher

The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users.

New Stars Malware Said to Target Iran

by Dennis Fisher
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The Iranian government says it is being targeted by a new piece of malware aimed at its federal computers. The disclosure comes a few months after the country’s nuclear facility was hit by the Stuxnet worm, kicking off a frenzy of cyberwar hysteria and speculation.

The Banker Trojan Epidemic

by Dennis Fisher

Banking Trojans have become a major security problem in many regions, particularly South America and Europe. In this video, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz discusses the epidemic and what can be done to mitigate it.

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