Yet Another Botnet Dismantled, Alleged Botmaster Arrested No doubt 2010 will go down as the year of the botnet takedown as yet another botnet met its demise this week: Dutch authorities announced that they have struck down the Bredolab botnet and arrested its alleged mastermind, marking the fourth consecutive major botnet to go down this year in coordinated, team efforts to root out these vehicles of cybercrime. Bredolab, which had some 30 million bot-infected machines in its army worldwide, was a spamming botnet known for pushing fake antivirus, phony pharmaceuticals, spreading other Trojan malware, and stealing the victim machine’s financial information.

Emerging Qakbot Exploit Is Ruffling Some Feathers It isn’t particularly new, and it’s not as funny as it sounds. But the Qakbot Trojan recently has been causing plenty of ripples in the IT security pond, researchers say.

Qakbot Trojan Spreading Like A Worm: Report Researchers are warning users about the reawakening of the Qakbot Trojan, a unique form of malware making its way into big banks and other global financial institutions, distinguished by its ability to spread like a worm but infect users like a Trojan.

The My Opera free Web hosting service is hosting malicious code, just the latest prominent hosting service to be gamed by malware distributors. Less than a month after Google’s Code hosting service was found to be hosting and serving malicious executables, a search of Opera Software’s My Opera free hosting service has also turned up malicious programs, according to a researcher at Kaspersky Lab.  My Opera, a free online hosting service for users of the Opera Web browser, played host to a PHP based IRC botnet, according to a post by Dmitry Bestuzhev, a researcher at Kaspersky Lab. The bot appears to have originated in Brazil, based on an analysis of the code, though its not clear who posted it to the My Opera  hosting service or when, Bestuzhev said

Holy Zeus! Popular Botnet Rules As New Exploits Come Online If there’s a “fashion trend” among botnet builders, Zeus is the new black — but its popularity is making many users and security professionals see red. Zeus, a Trojan horse that spreads bots quickly, can be adapted for multiple purposes, and is available in botnet-building kits, serves as the platform for a growing number of botnets and sub-botnets that are currently being exploited across the globe, according to experts

A critical upgrade to the internet’s infrastructure that will help make it more secure has been made in what is described as an historic collaboration between ICANN, the US Department of Commerce and VeriSign.

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