Christmas Botnet Threat

Taffycat

Taffycat

Crunchy Cat
Joined
Jun 1, 2006
Messages
13,028
Reaction score
1,075
'Tis (supposed to be) the season of goodwill to all men but.....

A sudden increase in spam has been identified in the latest security report issued today, as cyber-criminals gear up for a pre-Christmas blitz.

.....MessageLabs revealed last week that it had detected a botnet of nearly one million zombie PCs being assembled.
Click to expand...

The object is to launch a wave of phishing attacks, apparently. The complete article is on Vnunet, for those who might be interested.
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

Botnet 'ensnares government PCs 2
Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing Anti-Virus Programs 0
FBI takes down coreflood botnet (after 8 years in operation?) 7
Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm 76
2007 threat vector: your ass is grass 3
Safeguard Your PC Against the Downadup Worm 18
Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government (part 3) 0
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets =haxored 5

Back
Top