Web threats

If this month’s Top Twenty had been prepared using data from the first 26 days of October, two important malware related events would have been missing

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been closely following the behaviour of a botnet with a C&C (command and control) center based on a popular web-based engine.

The growth only stopped early yesterday evening – around 5pm Moscow time – when the overall total number of zombies was about 14000!

Today we saw a sad, but typical picture: a small botnet with an approximately 8600 zombie machines suddenly exploded and began to grow very quickly.

Italian TV went so far as to warn viewers of the Trojan.Win32.Small.mi – both with a short item on the midday news, and by running a warning across their news ticker.

A few days ago the Inquirer published a interesting little article talking about how Google hadn’t returned the search results he wanted, but instead told him his computer might be infected with a malicious program.

H.R. 1525 is ongoing evolution to the original (I-SPY) Internet Spyware Protection Act of 2005. Specifically, the new bill is “to discourage spyware, and for other purposes”.

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for December 2006

Are all antivirus created equal?

Although it’s maybe better know known for its extreme location and beautiful landscapes, Chile has been recently making the news for hacker arrest stories.

Social networking site contains spoof log-in page

Yesterday a full stop was placed to one of the most notorious cases of cybercrime in Russia over the past few years.

This week we’ve seen a couple of IM-Worms peaking above the radar to an extent you can probably call epidemic levels.

The Zotob authors have been convicted.

It’s two years today since Hungarian Laszlo K, the author of the Magold worm, was found guilty of unauthorized use of computer systems and sentenced to two years probation and a fine of $2,400.