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• Arizona man goes to prison for selling access to botnets

  07.09.2012

  Joshua Schichtel was sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected computers.

• Largest malware rise in four years

  04.09.2012

  McAfee found the biggest increase in malware samples detected in the last four years.

• Critical vulnerabilities in popular DDoS toolkit exposed

  15.08.2012

  Prolexic Technologies exposed weaknesses in the command and control (C&C) architecture of the Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family that could neutralize would-be attackers.

• Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail

  24.07.2012

  As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet - formerly the third largest in the world - has been effectively shut down last week after several security researchers managed to coordinate the takedown of its last-standing C&C servers in Ukraine and Russia.

• World's third largest botnet receives mortal blow

  19.07.2012

  Grum, a botnet responsible for 17.4 percent of the world's spam emails, finally seems to be dead.

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