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United States has reportedly dismantled a Russian botnet that hacked millions of devices
The US Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands…
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Twitter Appears To Be Fighting A Massive Botnet, Possibly Involving Millions Of Accounts
Nor is it clear why hackers would want to control a network of bogus accounts that simply retweets …
Jim Edwards
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Hackers found an ingenious way to embarrass Microsoft
There's another wrinkle to all of this. FireEye's technology helps detect what's known as "advanced…
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A massive hacking network that Microsoft and the US military tried to stop last month is already back — and it could be a bad sign for Election Day
Trickbot's quick resurgence raises concerns about Election Day. Experts warn that it could be used …
Aaron Holmes
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Microsoft said it thwarted a sprawling network of bots that could have been used to target election infrastructure
Microsoft said it disrupted servers that were used to run Trickbot, a notorious botnet that has bee…
Aaron Holmes
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This Is What It Looks Like When A Click-Fraud Botnet Secretly Controls Your Web Browser
Spider.io obtained a copy of "Zeus," a notorious piece of "root-kit" software that nestles inside t…
Jim Edwards
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Microsoft Busted A Major Cybercrime Ring
The two companies said they conservatively estimate that the Bamital botnet generated at least $1 m…
Reuters
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Up To 14% Of Mobile Traffic Is Controlled By Hackers
Solve sells captcha problems not just as security solutions but also as branding opportunities. For…
Jim Edwards
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Hacker Who Stole $100 Million Lives Happily In Luxury, In Russia
But USA Today has an enlightening story on the scale of Slavik's operations: His botnets took up to…
Jim Edwards
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Three US hackers took out key parts of the internet in 2016 because they wanted to make money on Minecraft
Eventually, Mirai's creators decided to publish its source code online, to try and throw any invest…
Shona Ghosh
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Police around the world teamed up in their biggest effort yet to takedown hackers, but cybercrime is hard to stem
"Operation Endgame" led to the dismantling of more than 100 malicious computer servers worldwide, b…
Natalie Musumeci
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Hackers Have Found A Flaw In Macs And Are Using It To Control 17,000 Apple Computers ... Via Reddit
When a Mac is infected with Mac.BackDoor.iWorm, the program tries to make a connection to a command…
James Cook
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What a cyberwar with North Korea could look like, according to a cybersecurity expert
One thing that you can look at is the Mirai botnet. That's basically a botnet of computers that are…
Chris Snyder
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It only took 2 weeks for the world's most dangerous hacking forum to get back online after the FBI shut it down
The Darkode forum granted its members access to an underground network where they could buy, sell, …
Alastair Stevenson
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A 'zombie army' of bots is going to steal $7.2 billion from the advertising industry this year
Botnets - also know as a "zombie army" - are computers that have been infected with malware that ge…
Will Heilpern,Will Heilpern
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A hacker claims to have stolen credentials to a bunch of US government sites - and he's selling them on the dark web
"If you had root access, you should be able to ... do whatever you wanted," a hacker told Tech Insi…
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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Jim Edwards
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Scammers have accelerated their attacks on connected TV and OTT devices, marking a whole new front for advertisers and publishers to combat ad fraud
To be sure, ad fraud has been perennial problem in digital advertising, with advertisers expected t…
Tanya Dua
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Windows 10 is spying on you - at least that's what this developer thinks
"To effectively provide Windows as a service, Microsoft collects some performance, diagnostic and u…
Alastair Stevenson
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36% Of All Web Traffic Is Fake
Part of the problem is that the legit ad industry itself is dependent on bot-like technology. Today…