...Storm has evolved so that it no longer has an army of zombies under one central control, rather it behaves like an army of vampires, divided into small groups where...
...As the zombies are used, they become discovered and subsequently blocked. While individual zombies are constantly changing, the overall botnet and people who control them remain the same. Because of...
...chart shows how blacklisted zombies have a vastly lower delivery rate than blacklisted zombies: When the researchers extrapolated their results to the entire Storm botnet, they estimated that the annual...
Security researchers at millw0rm.com recently discovered a shockingly straightforward vulnerability in the DD-WRT open source firmware that is commonly installed on Linksys routers. The vulnerability enables one-liner ownership of DD-WRT...
In this episode, we talk with email deliverability expert, Udeme. Udeme, who has worked with major players like Yahoo and LinkedIn, shares his experience in the email industry, offering valuable...
...addresses once they known the sender is bad. But what happens when a botnet harvests new zombies with IP addresses unknown to DNSBLs and uses those to send new spam...
...were analyses of the make-up and behavior of zombies from the Storm botnet. One of the unique things we do with Traffic Control is to track the operating system type...
...interesting. There’s a synergy between spam and virus activity since a wide spread virus has the ability to turn hundreds of thousands of personal computers into spam spewing zombies. The...
...Europe as the following chart shows: Almost 37% of the zombies were found to be located in Europe, followed closely by 29.1% in North America and 21.4% in Asia. The...
...from abusing Postfix. Protection against botnet-based attacks is minimal, because individual zombies typically “fly under the radar,” making only a limited number of connections. Hits botnets where it hurts, tying...
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