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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. Mega-D botnet creators have set up new command and control servers and re-established their connections. Security researchers at Georgia Tech have determined that mobile phones are vulnerable to hacking attacks. Researchers at Marshal, an internet security firm, are tracking a new spam campaign in which recipients receive messages inviting them to join MySpace – but a click on the link leads them to a bogus page containing malware disguised as an Adobe update. Warning that botnets are a "dynamic, evolving threat," researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed the classification of botnet structures to provide an effective response framework for attacks and general remediation. 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. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Telstra will increase cooperative efforts to reduce hi-tech crimes like identity fraud, phishing, botnet networks and attacks on public and private sector computer networks.
Size counts in online crime. For the first time botnets have leapfrogged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as the top operational threat to internet service providers (ISPs), new figures suggest. With the emergence of new attack techniques and the reinvention of old ones, 2008 has been a year of cybercriminal innovation. The number of computers currently controlled by botnets has exploded in recent months, say researchers. The stakes were high when scores of researchers and investigators met Thursday for the twice-annual International Botnet Task Force meeting. A web-hosting firm that apparently sent out more than 75 percent of worldwide spam has been knocked offline. While it is unlikely we will ever abolish cybercrime, I do believe that we can make the internet a safer place. Russian authorities accused of collusion with botnet owners. Security researchers today warned of a significant worm attack exploiting an old target, a privilege-escalation flaw in Symantec's Client Security and AntiVirus Corporate Edition solution that was patched in May. Barracuda Networks is predicting that spam volumes will rise to more than 95 per cent of all email in 2009. The cloud will become dangerous, good sites will be used to hide bad data, and rich internet applications will turn on their users. These are some of the predictions from Websense Security Labs, which has compiled a security forecast for 2009. In less than nine months in 2007, a botnet-driven junk mail network earned US$7.5 million for its operators -- just one example of the polished, modern-day spam operation, a panel said Wednesday at the SC World Congress. The fall in global spam levels after the shutting of web hosting company McColo looks to be short-lived after researchers reported that the Srizbi botnet has been reactivated.