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Study Links Storm Botnet's Growth To Illegal Drugs

talkinsecurity writes "Researchers at IronPort today published a study which claims to have found the 'smoking gun' that links the rapid growth of the Storm botnet to spammers that sell prescription drugs illegally over the Internet. The study shows that more than 80 percent of Storm-generated spam is advertising online pharmacy brands, and further investigation showed that spam templates, credit card processing, product fulfillment and customer support are all being provided by a 'Russian criminal organization' that operates in conjunction with Storm. This criminal organization recruits botnet spamming partners to advertise their illegal pharmacy Websites, which receive a 40 percent commission on sales orders. IronPort went as far as to do pharmacological testing on the products, and found that two-thirds of the drugs contained the wrong

Hacker Pleads Guilty to BotNet Attacks

A 19-year-old hacker, Jason Michael Milmont, has agreed to plead guilty in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Los Angeles. He is accused of being the mastermind behind a 15,000-computer-strong botnet that was used to hack the personal data from thousands of victims. A federal cybercrime official called this the nation’s first botnet attack that used P2P software as the infection point.

Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites

A botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher.

Asprox botnet malware morphs

The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks.

Rent-a-botnet makes cyber crime a breeze

Online fraudsters that aren't highly skilled in the arts of cyber crime can now rent a service that offers an all-in-one hosting server with a built-in Zeus trojan administration panel and infecting tools, allowing them to create their own botnet. continue

Jail sentence for botnet creator

A hacker who hijacked hundreds of PCs to create a botnet has been sentenced to 41 months in jail by a US court.

Hacker Gets 41 Months in Jail for Creating Botnet

A hacker who hijacked hundreds of PCs to create a botnet has been sentenced to 41 months in jail by a U.S. court. Robert Matthew Bentley of Panama City, Florida, also faces $65,000in fines and will be under supervision for three years on his release.

Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet

An anonymous reader writes "As all hardcore Simpsons fans know, Chunkylover53@aol.com was revealed to be Homer Simpsons' email address in one particular episode, registered by one of the shows writers, who would reply to fans as Homer himself. After a flood of messages, 'Homer' signed off — seemingly forever. Well in the last few days, security company Facetime Communications reports that anyone who had Homer on their AIM buddy list would have noticed his sudden reappearance. Unfortunately for all, he appears to have been hacked and pushing malware links which deposit those unlucky enough to run the file into a Turkish Botnet. The message claims the file is a 'web exclusive' episode of the TV show — an interesting way of targeting a specific group of fans who would assume Homers return would only coincide with something special like (

Colonel Suggests Using Hackers' Tool Against Them

The government wouldn't build its botnet by infecting innocent people's computers like criminal hackers, wrote Col. Charles Williamson III. Instead, the military could use PCs it was going to throw away. And it could expand that botnet's computing horsepower by implanting its code on other government computers.

Colonel Suggests Using Hackers' Tool Against Them

The government wouldn't build its botnet by infecting innocent people's computers like criminal hackers, wrote Col. Charles Williamson III. Instead, the military could use PCs it was going to throw away. And it could expand that botnet's computing horsepower by implanting its code on other government computers.

Botnet hacker's sentencing delayed

The sentencing of computer hacker Owen Thor Walker was due to take place in the Thames District Court today but has been postponed.

Botnet sics zombie soldiers on gimpy websites

Asprox zombies have recently been blessed with a tool that sniffs out potentially vulnerable sites running Microsoft's Active Server Pages and then tries to commandeer them using SQL injections. More...

Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites

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Hacker cops to $70k botnet rampage

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Malicious Spammers Deliver Fake UPS Invoices

Pushdo Botnet Attempts to Trick Recipients Into Downloading Malicious Components From Web, According to Marshal's TRACE Team

Expect iPhone, Fourth of July scams, security firm says

A Storm botnet campaign is expected this weekend that touts the Fourth of July holiday and significant spam touting the rollout of the iPhone 3G will likely hit users next week

Creator of Nugache worm reaches plea agreement

The teenage creator of a botnet who used a clever worm to infect PCs and then steal users' personal data has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in California.

Creator of Nugache Worm Reaches Plea Agreement

The teenage creator of a botnet who used a clever worm to infect PCs and then steal users' personal data has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in California.

Creator of Nugache worm reaches plea agreement

The teenage creator of a botnet who used a clever worm to infect PCs and then steal users' personal data has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in California.

Creator of Nugache Worm Reaches Plea Agreement

The teenage creator of a botnet who used a clever worm to infect PCs and then steal users' personal data has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in California.

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