botnet

DARKReading has posted an interesting article today, focusing on the new and growing threat of attackers using botnets to flood comment sections in a tactic called skewing. The attacks purpose is exactly what it sounds like, to skew public opinion, I am glad someone is touching on this, as with...

In a press release from the US Department of Justice, a Russian citizen Maxim Senakh was sentenced to 46 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Senakh was using malware to infect tens of thousands of servers in order to generate...

Did you know that those hot-chick tweets are likely bunk? I know this is a shocking revelation, but it has to be told. Those "girls" are fake! The SIREN spam botnet has been identified as having 90,000 unique Twitter accounts responsible for over 8.5M Twitter posts, that have garnered over 30M...