The FBI today released details of several cybercrime cases against individuals accused of defrauding banks, companies and consumers of more than $20 million with the help of “botnets,” large groupings of hijacked personal computers. The computer crime crackdown is Part Two of “Operation Bot Roast,” a series of investigations the FBI first detailed this summer. [...]
Acrobat Reader to display ‘message from our sponsor’ Despite my ma always saying ‘if you knew your times tables as well as your adverts’, people today still can’t escape advertising and the problem’s set to get even worse. Yahoo! has signed up with Adobe to incorporate targeted adverts into PDF documents.… Read more…
Acrobat Reader to display ‘message from our sponsor’ Despite my ma always saying ‘if you knew your times tables as well as your adverts’, people today still can’t escape advertising and the problem’s set to get even worse. Yahoo! has signed up with Adobe to incorporate targeted adverts into PDF documents.… Read more…
Using botnets to plant links and nurture zombie farms Miscreants have set out to poison search results with links to malware infested sites via a new campaign.… Read more…
Stealth botnet responsible for huge spam surge A copycat spam gang has launched an effort to compromise PCs that rivals the botnet created by the infamous Storm Worm Gang.… Read more…