Security News

Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty (The Hackers News)
2017-03-29 03:47

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to...

Fraudsters Using GiftGhostBot Botnet to Steal Gift Card Balances (The Hackers News)
2017-03-25 07:05

Gift cards have once again caused quite a headache for retailers, as cyber criminals are using a botnet to break into and steal cash from money-loaded gift cards provided by major retailers around...

How the Necurs botnet influences the stock market (Help Net Security)
2017-03-22 14:00

After a three-months-long partial hiatus, the Necurs botnet is back to flinging spam emails left and right. But unlike before the break, when it was mostly delivering the infamous Locky ransomware...

Google Eliminates Android Adfraud Botnet Chamois (Threatpost)
2017-03-14 19:40

Google removed a family of malicious apps, Chamois, from its Play marketplace recently that were found manipulating ad traffic.