Over 100,000 routers have had their DNS settings modified to redirect users to phishing pages. The redirection occurs only when users are trying to access e-banking pages for Brazilian banks. Around ...

The security research team at American ISP CenturyLink have discovered that an IoT botnet is proxying traffic for an YouTube video ad fraud scheme. Researchers made this discovery while investigating ...

A common way of combating spam traffic is to shut down the service provider through which the traffic is being processed. With a new variety of botnets, though, this method is becoming increasingly ...

Mozi’s spike comes amid a huge increase in overall IoT botnet activity. The Mozi botnet, a peer-2-peer (P2P) malware known previously for taking over Netgear, D-Link and Huawei routers, has swollen in ...

An advertising analytics company said it has discovered a botnet that generates upwards of US$6 million per month by generating bogus clicks on display advertisements. Spider.io, based in the U.K., ...

The Bahama botnet, a sophisticated network of compromised computers that is wreaking click-fraud havoc among advertisers, is also snatching away Web traffic and revenue right from under the nose of ...

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Douglas de Jager, Founder of Spider.io. Botnets ...

SecDev’s new project could stop botnet-powered fraud for good. Should we let it? SecDev’s new project could stop botnet-powered fraud for good. Should we let it? ZeroPoint sits on top of the network, ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft reported the successful takedown of what it calls the Kelihos botnet, a network of more than 40,000 infected computers capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day.

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