Nov 30
Friday, November 30th, 2007
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. To date, the operation has has identified more than two million individual PCs compromised by at least 10 individuals who have since pleaded guilty, been indicted or sentenced for various bot-related computer crimes. Click on the name of the individual below for a copy of his indictment and more details on the case: * Ryan Brett Goldstein, 21, of Ambler, Pa., was indicted on Nov. 1 for orchestrating attacks from a botnet of 50,000 PCs against various online chat networks. Goldstein, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, is accused of working with an […]
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Nov 30
Friday, November 30th, 2007
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.…
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Nov 29
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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.…
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Nov 28
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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.…
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Nov 28
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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.…
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