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  Microsoft employees seize Zeus botnet servers with the help of US Marshals

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 26, 2012 08:30 am + 10 comments

  Accompanied by US marshals, Microsoft employees raided office buildings in Scranton, Pennsylvania Continue reading…

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  FCC approves voluntary Anti-Bot Code to help ISPs deal with botnets

  By Ryan Heise on March 23, 2012 07:27 am + 4 comments

  An FCC advisory committee unanimously adopted a series of policies on Thursday in an attempt to Continue reading…

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  Computers infected with DNSChanger get a reprieve from internet cut off

  By Ryan Heise on March 7, 2012 06:12 am + 4 comments

  The US government has secured an extension to keep computers infected with the DNSChanger malware Continue reading…

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  Fake antivirus exploit found on 30,000 (mostly WordPress) sites

  By Adi Robertson on March 6, 2012 04:53 pm + 35 comments

  A piece of malware that masquerades as antivirus software has been found on 200,000 web pages or Continue reading…

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  Report: NASA hacks compromised Space Station control data

  By Jamie Keene on March 1, 2012 10:46 am + 20 comments

  In testimony to Congress, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin has exposed a barrage of attacks by Continue reading…

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  Half of Fortune 500 companies and U.S. federal agencies infected with DNSChanger malware

  By Andrew Webster on February 17, 2012 09:16 pm + 11 comments

  Security firm Internet Identity has revealed that more than half of all Fortune 500 companies and Continue reading…

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  Juniper sees shift from 'proof of concept to profitability' in mobile malware

  By Adi Robertson on February 15, 2012 03:33 pm + 13 comments

  As smartphones grow in popularity, so does the amount of malicious software for them. Juniper Continue reading…

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  Android malware gives itself root access to connect to botnet

  By Adi Robertson on February 9, 2012 06:44 pm + 63 comments

  A recently discovered piece of Android malware may be generating thousands of dollars a day for its Continue reading…

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  Botnet similar to Kelihos is active, but Kelihos itself still dead, say Microsoft and Kaspersky

  By Dieter Bohn on February 3, 2012 09:30 pm + 4 comments

  Earlier today we (and many others on the web) reported that the 41,000 computers infected with the Continue reading…

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  41,000-strong Kelihos botnet back from the dead (update: just a variant)

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 3, 2012 09:13 am + 9 comments

  The 41,000-computer botnet known as Kelihos (or Hlux, depending on who you ask), temporarily Continue reading…