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A federal grand jury in New Orleans has indicted a Brazilian man on charges he operated a botnet that was used to deliver spam. A new variant of the Kraken bot uses a word generator to produce bogus headers and random URLs in an attempt to evade host intrusion prevention technologies, according to security vendor PC Tools. Symantec has boosted the botnet protection of its Managed Security Service (MSS) for Australian customers after reporting a seven percent global increase in the use of the malicious technique in a recent threat report. The FBI has claimed that the second phase of 'Operation Bot Roast' has uncovered $20m in illegal activity and led to eight arrests. Symantec has announced that it has integrated bot intelligence into its managed security service. Since Microsoft's Windows Server Service vulnerability was patched in late October, exploits have continually surfaced. Though worldwide spam levels are still diminished in the wake of the McColo hosting-company shutdown, it may only be a matter of time before they come roaring back. The stakes were high when scores of researchers and investigators met Thursday for the twice-annual International Botnet Task Force meeting. The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely. While it is unlikely we will ever abolish cybercrime, I do believe that we can make the internet a safer place. A Brazilian man has been indicted for conspiring to broker the sale of a botnet which allegedly damaged 100,000 Pcs. As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. A major job site is the latest phishing attack target. According to a McAfee Avert Labs blog, Monster.com was made to seem the source of phishing emails.
Forthcoming report from IronPort reveals worrying trends The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks. Spammers are increasingly turning to hosted services to ship out their junk mail, the latest threat report from MessageLabs revealed. The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm. Mega-D, set off a firestorm of speculation, recently. What family of malware was behind this previously unknown botnet? How had it emerged to challenge Storm with hardly a mention in any research articles or press? Security experts have warned that a single automated SQL attack has compromised thousands of websites.. A new BotArmy, named "Kraken," reportedly twice as big as Storm, has been identified.