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More Tax Payment malware news today, with a resurgence of the Bredolab botnet. Our MessageLabs Anti-Virus Service reported a suspicious email, similar to the Tax Spam Malware Warning yesterday. The message title once again was Your Tax Payment ID [Random Number] is failed This time Symantec reported it as Trojan.Bredolab, which is a likely . . . → Read More: Bredolab Botnet Still Active If you live anywhere except the City of New York you may have been surprised to receive an email recently, which claims to come from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. Even if you aren’t based in the United States, or even don’t drive a car, you may well see the posting which . . . → Read More: Uniform Traffic Ticket Malware Spam In a further move against international cyber criminals, Microsoft has offered a reward of $250,000.00 reward for information that results in the identification, arrest and criminal conviction of those responsible for controlling the notorious Rustock bot-net. Microsoft says that IP address infections of Rustock have reduced by more than 50% worldwide since the company took . . . → Read More: Microsoft Offers Reward for Information on Rustock Botnet With headlines like “More Than 2 Million Computers Infected with Keylogging Software as Part of Massive Fraud Scheme”, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the filing of a civil complaint, the execution of criminal seizure warrants, and the issuance of a temporary restraining order as part of the most . . . → Read More: Microsoft Floors The Coreflood Botnet Have you missed your daily dose of spam emails advertising everything from Viagra to fake pharmaceuticals and watches this week? According to a link spotted on eWeek, Microsoft is claiming responsibility for the takedown of the massive Rustock botnet, which stopped sending out spam midmorning on 16 March 2011. This operation, known as Operation B107, . . . → Read More: Microsoft Claims Rustock Botnet Takedown In a post on the Official Microsoft blog, entitled Cracking Down on Botnets, Microsoft announced the takedown of the Waledac botnet, one of the 10 largest botnets in the United States and a major distributor of spam globally. Microsoft achieved this after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order cutting off 277 Internet domains . . . → Read More: Microsoft Takes Down The Waledac Botnet Conficker worm infected machines may comprise one of the biggest networks of robot computers (botnets) in Internet history if security experts’ fears are proved correct. From midnight on 1 April, the Conficker program will start scanning thousands of websites for a new set of instructions telling it what to do next. Conficker – also known . . . → Read More: Is Conficker the start of the biggest botnet in history? |
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