Tuesday | 7 July, 2009
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    One bot-infected PC = 600,000 spam messages a day 23/04/2009 07:42:00

    Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed.
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    Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly 22/04/2009 09:11:00

    Criminal cyber gangs must be harried, hounded and hunted until they're driven out of business, a noted botnet researcher said today as he prepared to pitch a new anti-malware strategy later this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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    Russian 'cyber militia' knocks Kyrgyzstan offline 29/01/2009 09:19:00

    A Russian "cyber militia" has knocked the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan off the Internet, a security researcher said Wednesday, demonstrating that the hackers are able to respond even faster than last year, when they waged a digital war against another former Soviet republic, Georgia.
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    Researcher: Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours 15/01/2009 07:04:00

    The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said Wednesday.
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    Crooks can make $5M a year shilling fake security software 03/11/2008 08:08:00

    Criminals can make as much as US$5 million a year by planting nearly-worthless security software on PCs, then badgering users with so many bogus malware warnings that they fork over their credit card, a noted crimeware researcher said Friday.
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    Citibank debit card fraud highlights ATM vulnerabilities 08/07/2008 08:17:53

    Malicious ATM intrusions, such as the late-winter breach that resulted in the compromise of Citibank debit card data, are not at all surprising given the vulnerable state of many of the servers and other components involved in processing such transactions, according to some industry representatives.
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    Web 2.0 sites a thriving marketplace for malware 02/06/2008 09:18:19

    A wiry young man with his head shaved and wearing a tank top points a handgun straight at the camera in a disturbing YouTube video. The man wears what appears to be a wedding ring, and he gazes vacantly away from the viewer.
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    Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15/05/2008 08:10:59

    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.
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    Researchers infiltrate Kraken botnet, could clean it out 01/05/2008 08:30:47

    A group of security researchers Wednesday said they have infiltrated one of the world's biggest botnets and can snatch control of compromised machines from the hackers.
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    New Trojan intercepts online banking information 15/01/2008 09:34:08

    A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users' bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database.
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    Six hot items on the hacker's holiday shopping list 18/10/2007 10:56:01

    Malicious hackers and other assorted bad guys looking for new tools for plying their trade this upcoming holiday season will have plenty of toys and services to choose from.
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