Hacker News
- New Mac OS X botnet discovered http://news.drweb.com/show/?i=5976&lng=en 9 comments
- Massive Indestructible Botnet http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218034/Massive_botnet_indestructible_say_researchers 45 comments
Lobsters
- New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/new-p2p-botnet-panchan 5 comments go , security
- Microsoft removed Tor remotely from botnet-infected systems http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/20/microsoft-removes-tor 16 comments technology
- Russian Script Kiddie Assembles Massive DDoS Botnet https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/russian-script-kiddie-assembles-massive-ddos-botnet 30 comments technology
- Google temporarily disrupts a botnet that infected 1 million PCs https://www.engadget.com/google-disrupts-glupteba-botnet-202342050.html 14 comments technology
- Microsoft disrupts Russian criminal botnet it fears could seek to sow confusion in the presidential election https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/12/microsoft-trickbot-ransomware/ 4 comments politics
- Justice Dept. announces seizure of domain behind Russian-backed botnet https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/politics/doj-botnet-takedown-malware-russia-hackers/index.html 7 comments politics
- DOJ sentences Russian for role in ‘global botnet conspiracy’ http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/345180-doj-sentences-russian-for-role-in-global-botnet-conspiracy 6 comments politics
- How the FBI Took Down Russia’s Spam King—And His Massive Botnet https://www.wired.com/2017/04/fbi-took-russias-spam-king-massive-botnet/?google_editors_picks=true 22 comments politics
- Mirai botnet creator unmasked as DDOS protection developer tempted by the dark side https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/18/mirai-botnet-creator-unmasked-as-ddos-protection-developer-tempted-by-the-dark-side/ 8 comments technology
- A New Botnet Hits Servers With 150 Gbps DDoS Attacks http://gizmodo.com/a-new-botnet-hits-servers-with-150-gbps-ddos-attacks-1733743786 15 comments technology
- Security firm discovers Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/29/linux-botnet-hits-with-150-gbps-ddos/ 4 comments technology
- Hola Better Internet Sells Your Bandwidth, Turning Its VPN into a Botnet http://lifehacker.com/hola-better-internet-sells-your-bandwidth-turning-its-1707496872 13 comments firefox
- Police kill money-stealing botnet that infected millions of PCs http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/26/police-wipe-out-ramnit-botnet/ 17 comments technology
- NSA secretly uses scapegoats, data mules and innocent victims' PCs for botnets http://www.computerworld.com/article/2872292/nsa-secretly-uses-scapegoats-data-mules-and-innocent-victims-pcs-for-botnets.html 2 comments technology
- New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2875 32 comments technology
- Facebook PTG: Taking Down the Lecpetex Botnet https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/taking-down-the-lecpetex-botnet/1477464749160338 3 comments netsec
- Large botnet traced back to hacked refrigerator by cyber-security researchers http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/large-botnet-traced-back-to-hacked-refrigerator-by-cyber-security-researchers-472608 3 comments technology
- Microsoft remotely deleted old versions of Tor software from Windows Machines without user permission to reportedly stop Botnet http://www.dailydot.com/technology/tor-botnet-microsoft-malware-remove/ 18 comments worldnews
- Cross-platform Windows/Linux DDoS botnet spreading (IOW, some idiots still have SSH servers on the Internet with password authentication) http://www.cert.pl/news/7849/langswitch_lang/en 54 comments linux
- How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/01/how-a-grad-student-trying-to-build-the-first-botnet-brought-the-internet-to-its-knees/ 14 comments technology
- Discovered: Botnet Costing Display Advertisers over Six Million Dollars per Month, dubbed 'Chameleon' http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet 7 comments netsec
- From the guys behind many of the largest botnet takedowns; A new non-profit, public benefit, Malicious Domain Slaughter House. Know malware? We could really use your help! http://www.thesecuredomain.org 19 comments netsec
- Microsoft Announces That The Kelihos Botnet Was Operated By An Employee Of An Antivirus Company http://www.geeksailor.com/microsoft-kelihos-botnet-antivirus-employee/ 21 comments technology
- Moshi Moshi is a PoC VoIP Botnet C&C that allows the operator to dial in from a phone. https://code.google.com/p/moshimoshi/ 3 comments netsec
- BitTorrent DHT exploit turns swarms into DDoS botnets http://torrentfreak.com/bottorrent-using-bittorrent-as-a-ddos-tool-101229/ 3 comments reddit.com
- JUSTICE SERVED! Officer gets 24 months for murder of unarmed detained man, but college student gets 30 months for harmless DDoS and botnets of conservative figures. http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant 6 comments reddit.com
- A botnet for hire springs up http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1732964/a-botnet-hire-springs 3 comments netsec
- This botnet based check-counterfeiting scam only netted $65K but to me it's like a work of art. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20011885-245.html 9 comments netsec
- Yahoo! Messenger Users Infected By New Worm, Form An IRC Botnet http://cyberinsecure.com/yahoo-messenger-users-infected-by-new-worm-form-an-irc-botnet/ 4 comments netsec
- Battling Botnets With An Awesome OS http://www.physorg.com/news190018264.html 10 comments netsec
- After Microsoft took down the 277 Waledac domains, the botnet dropped in size considerably [graph] http://www.sudosecure.net/waledac/index.php 9 comments netsec
- Microsoft is granted a restraining order allowing them to unilaterally shutdown domains used by the Waledac botnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10459558-83.html?tag=newseditorspicksarea.0 9 comments programming
- With the help of a US federal judge, Microsoft has struck a blow against one of the Internet's worst sources of spam: the notorious Waledac botnet. http://news.techworld.com/security/3213597/microsoft-kills-waledac-spam-botnet/?olo=rss 37 comments technology
- Botnets Primer and Demo Tutorial http://securitytube.net/botnets-primer-and-demo-video.aspx 4 comments netsec
- Infiltrating a Botnet - includes a conversation with the botmaster http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/bots.html 30 comments netsec
- Mac OS X Trojan Attack Changes DNS Settings - Are We Seeing the Beginning of Mac-based Botnets? http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/client/showarticle.jhtml;jsessionid=vnz411cbgdt2nqe1ghrskh4atmy32jvn?articleid=219200192 5 comments netsec
- First Mac Botnet Stems From iWork, Photoshop Trojans http://www.crn.com/security/216700006;jsessionid=hgzw5bkxcekx0qsndlpskh0cjunn2jvn 8 comments apple
- Zombie Explosion! - The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/zombie_surge/ 3 comments technology