CIA, PayPal under bizarre SSL assault
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| The "massive" flood of requests is made over
| the websites' SSL, or secure-sockets layer,
| port, causing them to consume more resources
| than normal connections, according to
| researchers at Shadowserver Foundation, a
| volunteer security collective. The torrent
| started about a week ago and appears to be
| caused by recent changes made to a botnet
| known as Pushdo.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/strange_ssl_web_attack/
Botnet sends fake SSL pings to CIA, PayPal, others
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| Pushdo downloads different Trojans onto
| infected machines and has been used to send
| spam as part of the Cutwail spambot,
| according to Stewart. It is comprised of
| about 300,000 infected PCs and the operators,
| believed to be located in Eastern Europe, are
| leasing out its usage to criminals, he said.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10445337-245.html
Botnet Targets Major Web Sites With Junk SSL Connection
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188264/botnet_targets_major_web_sites_with_junk_ssl_connection.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
Cyber war is coming, the impact could be huge
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| CBS News reports that cyber war is a
| reality that, according to cyber experts,
| the US will have to be prepared for - and
| soon.
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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8484
Cyber War: Sabotaging the System
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/06/60minutes/main5555565_page6.shtml
Bot herders hide master control channel in Google cloud
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| Cyber criminals' love affair with cloud
| computing just got steamier with the
| discovery that Google's AppEngine was
| tapped to act as the master control
| channel that feeds commands to large
| networks of infected computers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/09/bot_herders_coopt_google_appengine/
Related:
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
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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