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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 297 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: mayday mayday a botnet is here comments Discuss  
A recent report indicates there is a newer, more sinister botnet that is setting itself up to surpass the Storm worm. The botnet, called MayDay, is thought to be more elusive and have a greater capacity for causing damage than it's Storm worm counterpart. Symantec Security Response has come across a sample and has released a new detection named Trojan.Daymay to identify this malware. Computers protected by Symantec antivirus products were previously protected as the sample was detected as W32.Mytob.AA@mm. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 291 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: mayday mayday ruskies reinvent cyber crime comments Discuss  
Not your father's botnetResearchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 290 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn mayday mayday ruskies reinvent cyber crime comments Discuss  
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/new_botnet_advances/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco13th February 2008Researchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.One of them, dubbed MayDay by security firm Damballa, uses new ways to send and receive instructions to infected machines. One communication method uses standard HTTP that is sent through an organization's web proxy. That allows the malw read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 289 days ago
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Forwarded from: *Hobbit* <hobbit (at) avian.org>Breathless articles like this just piss me off. It isn't about whose botnet is bigger or more secretive or what its C2 protocol is. It's really about the fact that they're permitted to exist at all, let alone successfully send huge volumes of spam.If the ISPs would actually grow a pair one of these days and curtail untrusted customer netblocks full of known-infested machines from sending ANY direct SMTP traffic to anywhere but the ISP's own authorized read more »
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