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A Brazilian man has been indicted for conspiring to broker the sale of a botnet which allegedly damaged 100,000 Pcs. The stakes were high when scores of researchers and investigators met Thursday for the twice-annual International Botnet Task Force meeting. Quebec police have arrested 17 people on charges stemming from alleged botnet-related activities that police said caused an estimated US$44.3 million in damages worldwide. Consultancy firm, The Leading Edge called Proofpoint to restore its email when a Botnet attack took the company’s internet link down. A trojan has used MSN Messenger to multiply the number of PCs added to a botnet 24 times in one day. A teenager has pleaded guilty to running a botnet of 1.3 million PCs from his home in New Zealand.. An American who helped a New Zealand hacker has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and five years of probation. A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.
The number of computers currently controlled by botnets has exploded in recent months, say researchers. The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks. A new botnet which specialises in sending out phishing spam has prompted security experts to call for enterprises to review their security protection. A new botnet spamming male sexual enhancement pill promotions has overtaken the notorious Storm worm botnet as the ‘largest single source of the world’s spam’, security vendor Marshal has warned. The Storm botnet decreased to just five per cent of its original size during April, but overall web-based malware levels increased by 23.3 per cent, new monitoring data reveals. What is the future of the infamous Storm worm, has it morphed into the Mega-D botnet that is now posing a threat or shrunk out of sight? The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely. According to anti-virus vendor Secure Computing a botnet virus, dubbed Nugache, is set to unseat Storm as the nastiest botnet on the planet. Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email.
Emails embedded with fake Britney Spears and Paris Hilton Google search links are part of a new spam botnet that leads users to malware hosted by the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN). 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. The Storm botnet is sharing the love this week with a new spam run aimed at taking the romance out of Valentine's Day..