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Russia has overtaken China as the world’s highest producer of spyware and viruses according to researchers at security vendor PC Tools. The trail of bogus anti-virus software and the money it brings in leads to a software company in Russia, according to security researchers. The Cold War may be over, but the global battle over information security is heating up, as U.S. intelligence experts struggle to fend off relentless cyber attacks emanating from China and Russia on critical databases. Russia has emerged as a "spam superpower", IT security experts warned today.. The Russian government has been cleared of any direct involvement in cyber attacks on Georgia. As Kaspersky Lab targets the global corporate market, its co-founder tells Paul Fisher why he thinks people are not afraid of the Russians. The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is showing that the war in Georgia is being used to evade spam filters. Web pages belonging to the US Consulate General in St Petersburg were compromised by hackers earlier this week and used to host malicious code. Some 300 Lithuanian web sites have been daubed with images of the Soviet red flag and are playing anti-Lithuanian songs, reports have it. The Georgian government has accused Russia of launching an online attack against the country’s web infrastructure in conjunction with its occupation of South Ossetia. Misuse of language is turning 'ordinary, decent computer criminals' into 'cyberterrorists' who menace world peace. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack brought down a government website in Georgia this weekend.
Russian authorities accused of collusion with botnet owners. Finjan has warned internet users to be on their guard following an apparent compromised webpage on one of the sub-domains on the CBS.com portal.
The United States central command was hit by an attack and affected computers in combat zones in the Middle East. The amount of unwanted email is again surging after a host of botnets -- led by the high-powered Srizbi network of compromised machines -- have reconnected to internet service providers. The anonymity and universal access of cyberspace makes cybercrime attractive and easy. Spammers have launched their 2008 holiday season spam campaigns using email to tout pharmaceutical products and casino spam with a Christmas angle.
Chinese hackers have been able to successfully attack the White House computer network and obtain email messages between United States'government officials, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing a senior U.S. official. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers.