Security News

Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages (Help Net Security)
2015-11-13 08:56

A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts. "I mostly wanted to create a PoC after Twitter decid...

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 08:00

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a...