botnets

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Software

How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse

4:00AM John Mahoney | On the surface, April 1 came and went without a peep from the dreaded Conficker megaworm. But security experts see a frightening reality, one where Conficker is now more powerful and more dangerous than ever.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Online

Giant Dutch Botnet Busted, Forced to Commit Ritualistic Suicide

11:00PM John Mahoney | When the Dutch High Tech Crime unit raided the 150,000-machine strong Shadow botnet, they didn’t simply bust its 19- and 16-year-old basement-dwelling operators. Oh no. Instead of simply decapitating it from the top, the police enlisted the help of Kaspersky Labs to actually take full control, driving the cold dagger of the law even deeper into Shadow’s own soulless guts. More »
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Monday, September 10, 2007
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World’s Biggest Supercomputer is a Virus?

10:03PM Gizmodo US Edition | The Storm Worm Botnet currently infects between one and ten million computers worldwide, which means that it has access to a huge amount of processing power and somewhere between 1 and 10 petabytes of RAM. This apparently makes it one of the most powerful computers in the world, with more computing power than the ten fastest supercomputers in the world combined. More »
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