Security researchers marked the one-year anniversary of the botnet-building Storm Trojan today by disagreeing on its impact and arguing over whether it’s an important landmark on the security ...

The Storm/Waldec botnet may be behind a new spam campaign that was recently launched to kick off 2011. According to researchers with Shadowserver Foundation, the campaign is designed to look like a ...

Microsoft didn’t crush the Storm botnet as it has claimed, rival security researchers argued today. Instead, the criminals responsible for the army of compromised computers diversified last year to ...

Botnets are hopped up on Viagra. That's the conclusion of a new report being issued by researchers at IronPort, Cisco Systems's email security unit, who have identified a link between originators of ...

A mass email was sent out inviting people to watch a video of July 4 fireworks celebrations, with headlines including "America the Beautiful", and "Bright and joyful Fourth of July". It included a ...

It's a question all computer users ask from time to time, as we delete yet another advertisement that has squeaked past our spam filters: Does anybody really buy this stuff? A group of California ...

When Owen Walker was arrested for masterminding a massive international network of compromised computers last year, it seemed like a major victory in the war against botnets. The 18-year-old New ...

Storm: the largest botnet in the world?, 09/27/07: Storm may not be the most creative or malicious piece of malware ever written, but it’s on track to become the most productive; threat researchers’ ...

Storm, the Trojan that Hoovers PCs into hacker-controlled botnets, roared back into life last month in several waves, security researchers said Monday, and has blown by 2005’s Sober to become the most ...