Botnet articles

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  Microsoft and FBI collaborate to take down $500 million 'Citadel' botnet ring

  By Aaron Souppouris on June 6, 2013 04:52 am + 17 comments

  Microsoft in cooperation with the FBI took down the majority of the malicious computer networks that Continue reading…

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  Employee creates Bitcoin botnet to exploit ESEA's 500,000-member gaming community

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 2, 2013 06:42 am + 28 comments

  The ESEA gaming network has been exploiting its users' powerful graphics cards to mine Bitcoins Continue reading…

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  Massive botnet using brute force attack to target WordPress sites

  By Dieter Bohn on April 13, 2013 01:53 am + 55 comments

  A huge network of over 90,000 IP addresses has been targeting WordPress blog installations with a Continue reading…

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  Massive botnet costs advertisers millions, but hackers may not be to blame (update)

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 19, 2013 03:40 pm + 10 comments

  A new botnet has taken over 120,000 computers and is using them to click on ads in the background in Continue reading…

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  Microsoft disrupts millions of botnet connections after discovering PCs with preloaded malware

  By Tom Warren on September 13, 2012 07:07 am + 33 comments

  Microsoft revealed this week that it has helped disrupt more than 500 different strains of malware Continue reading…

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  How the world's largest spam botnet was brought down

  By Jeff Blagdon on August 5, 2012 12:13 am + 14 comments

  Eight months ago, the Grum botnet was estimated to be the largest in the world, pumping out a third Continue reading…

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  Grum botnet taken down, may have been responsible for 18 percent of global spam

  By Bryan Bishop on July 18, 2012 07:30 pm + 33 comments

  Security experts say they've taken down Grum, a global botnet that may have been responsible for as Continue reading…

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  Google denies Android botnet report, Microsoft researcher admits he guessed at the source

  By Sean Hollister on July 5, 2012 09:47 pm + 75 comments

  Yesterday, we told you how a Microsoft anti-spam engineer claimed to have found a network of Android Continue reading…

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  Android spam botnet revealed by Microsoft engineer

  By Louis Goddard on July 4, 2012 08:11 am + 125 comments

  A Microsoft anti-spam engineer has identified an international botnet controlling Android devices, Continue reading…

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  Google notifying 500,000 users affected with DNSChanger on its search results page

  By Nathan Ingraham on May 23, 2012 04:53 pm + 15 comments

  DNSChanger is the malware that just won't die — the massive botnet was shut down last year, but it Continue reading…