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Anatomy of a botnet
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| Lately, though, Storm has been evolving yet again. This time it's isolating
| its network further from the general Internet traffic by encrypting packets
| using an embedded key and simple XOR. It also has been changing its initial
| infection packing or compression process. The outer layers change every 10
| minutes, while the interior bot code changes packing more on the order of
| once a month. Neither the packing nor the encryption have so far proven
| defeating to security researchers.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-10040669-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring
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| Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a
| network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions
| of dollars from victims' bank accounts.
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http://news.smh.com.au/new-zealand-teenager-convicted-over-international-cyber-crime-ring/20080301-1vzs.html
Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
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| The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the
| end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000.
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| "I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better",
| says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147701/malware_spam_and_other_net_pests_rev_up.html
100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered.
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| The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every
| hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad
| Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."
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| You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been
| hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer?
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1698505531&rid=-50
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
How to make something from nothing
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| Many criminals are profiting from technology lapses
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| A whole new way of breaking computer programs intrigues - and worries -
| regular columnist Bill Thompson
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| [...]
|
| And it could end up costing a lot of people a lot of money as they fight back
| against a new wave of viruses, trojans, keyloggers and other malware built
| using the techniques he outlines - although of course that isn't Dowd's goal
| in publishing the paper.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7358792.stm
Phishing Attacks Double in U.K.
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| Apacs recorded more than 10,000 reported phishing incidents in the first
| quarter of 2008, more than 200 percent up from the same period last year.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144845/phishing_attacks_double_in_uk.html
New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm
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| Damballa predicts that even now that Kraken has been outed, it will continue
| growing at least in the near-term -- up to at least 600,000 new bots by
| mid-April. Its bots are prolific, too: The firm has seen single Kraken bots
| sending out up to 500,000 pieces of spam in a day.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1
Spam blights e-mail 15 years on
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| More than 90% of all e-mail is spam, according to anti-spam body Spamhaus.
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| "Spam is a real life arms race," said Mark Sunner, chief analyst at online
| security firm Message Labs.
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| Billions of spam e-mails are sent each day, blocking mail servers, slowing
| down networks, infecting people's computers with viruses, helping hijack
| machines and generally making the internet a painful experience for many.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7322615.stm
What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor
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| Speaking at the Boston SecureWorld conference Wednesday, the 19-year
| Microsoft veteran whose job includes protecting enterprises, developers and
| Microsoft itself said there actually is plenty of good news on the security
| front. For example, his outfit scans a half million devices (with customer
| permission) per month and in the first half of last year saw the first
| period-over-period decline in new vulnerabilities disclosed across Microsoft
| and non-Microsoft software since 2003.
|
| However, 3,400 new vulnerabilities were discovered and “it’s still a big
| number,” Arsenault says. “So if vulnerability rates are down, where are
| they?”
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.html
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