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Is Your Home Router in the LizardSquad Botnet?
2015-01-10 03:01:56| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Spoilers: Change the user name and password on your router. Use wireless security. Disable WPS. Keep your router's firmware updated.
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Botnet Twists the Knife in iCloud Security
2014-09-10 16:00:39| TechNewsWorld
Hot on the heels of hackers stealing celebrities' nude photos from their iCloud accounts and posting them on the Web comes news that iCloud users are being targeted again. The Kelihos botnet is sending emails purporting to be from Apple, informing targets they have purchased a film through their iTunes account using a PC or other device not previously linked to their Apple ID.
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New Gameover Zeus botnet growing in the U.S.
2014-08-14 19:32:17| InfoWorld: Top News
Cyber criminals are in the process of rebuilding the GOZ (Gameover Zeus) botnet, which law enforcement authorities took over in June, and recent research suggests that they've had some success, especially in the U.S. The original GOZ botnet was built using a modified version of the infamous Zeus trojan program and was designed to steal online banking and other credentials from infected computers. The GOZ malware authors created a command-and-control infrastructure with a peer-to-peer architecture, making their botnet more resilient to takeover attempts.
Botnet uses brute force to access PoS systems
2014-07-10 14:09:01| InfoWorld: Top News
Thousands of compromised computers are actively trying to break into point-of-sale (PoS) systems using brute-force techniques to guess remote administration credentials. The computers are part of a botnet, dubbed BrutPOS by researchers from security firm FireEye, that has been active since at least February. The botnet scans attacker-specified IP address ranges for systems that accept Remote Desktop Protocol (port 3389) connections.
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Facebook announces arrests have been made for the 'Lecpetex' botnet
2014-07-09 14:12:16| InfoWorld: Top News
Facebook said police in Greece made two arrests last week in connection with a little-known spamming botnet called "Lecpetex," which used hacked computers to mine the Litecoin virtual currency. As many as 50,000 Facebook accounts were affected, and as many as 250,000 computers worldwide, primarily in Greece, Poland, Norway, India, Portugal, and the United States, according to a blog post on Tuesday from Facebook's Threat Infrastructure team.
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