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The Fortinet Global Security Research team has detected two phishing attacks on UK major banks that were mounted using the Storm Worm botnet, said to be the first attack on the financial sector by Storm's huge network of zombie computers. After a year in development, a botnet touted as the ‘Celebrity Spam Gang’ has reached similar distribution capabilities as the notorious Storm worm and is responsible for 20 percent of all spam circulation, warned Marshal. The mastermind behind the 2006 DDoS attack on the Philadelphia University which infected 50,000 computers has been identified as an 18-year-old New Zealand man, nicknamed ‘AKILL’. A highly organised gang of phishers took some time off to rebuild its botnet infrastructure -- but experts expect the scams to return with a vengeance. A federal grand jury in New Orleans has indicted a Brazilian man on charges he operated a botnet that was used to deliver spam. Spam messages promoting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul that were distributed in October have been traced to a Ukrainian botmaster. The 2007 Global Threat Report from Bratislava-based security firm ESET has highlighted the huge success of the Storm worm.. The US Internal Revenue Service found 1,811 unauthorised web servers connected to its network. Six botnets are generating about 85 percent of all spam, according to security researchers at Marshal's TRACE labs. Mega-D and Srizbi have been trading places recently at the top of the spam menace list. Crushing the Storm worm, the Srizbi botnet has caused a sharp rise in the circulation of malicious spam which is said to have tripled in just one week. Security vendor Symantec has integrated new botnet intelligence capabilities into its Managed Security Services (MSS) to give additional protection for its customers. Botnets are getting smaller as criminals seek to fly in under the radar of corporate network defences, security experts warned today. Postini has revamped its Email Security service adding new content policy management capabilities including protection for credit card numbers. 'One of the most sophisticated' scams in recent times. The number of spam messages jumped to a record 94 percent of all email on the internet last month, research from Postini reveals. Market for hijacked PCs fuels online crime. An intricate network of servers operated by Chinese criminals has moved into the void created when the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN) shut down, according to a report from anti-crimeware vendor Finjan. The malicious botnet is now attempting to recruit new members by hiding its malware within a fake news story about the FBI and Facebook.
Less than a week after disappearing from the web, the shadowy Russian Business Network (RBN) has cut short its re-emergence in China. 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?