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Virobot Ransomware with Botnet spreading via Microsoft Outlook

HemantSaxena@TWCN — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:30:13 +0000

Despite efforts to sniff it out, Spams continue to live. Microsoft Outlook supports some features that help to slow it down. Still, this menace continues to grow and expand its reach furthermore. The new Virobot ransomware-botnet is a case in point. A report published on TrendLabs says that Virobot, with both ransomware and botnet capabilities, […]

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Monero Mining Botnet stealing Millions in Global Fraud

Karan Khanna — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:30:13 +0000

With the current fluctuations in the Cryptocurrency markets you would be forgiven for thinking that all of the currencies are on a downward spiral, but there are a few that are bucking the trend. Bitcoin rivals such as Monero and Ethereum are still heading in a positive direction even after a brutal period of boom […]

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Microsoft and Interpol partners to tackle Simda network

SusannahLindsay@TWCN — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:30:51 +0000

Microsoft has joined hands with a group of leading IT and security companies like Kaspersky Lab, TrendIn a global operation coordinated by the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore, Trend Micro and Japan’s Cyber Defense Institute, in collaboration with law enforcement agencies, to disrupt the Simda criminal botnet — a network of thousands of […]

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Beebone, a dangerous Polymorphic downloader Botnet hunted down

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:30:27 +0000

In a successful joint operation participated by European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), Dutch High Tech Crime Unit, FBI and other private partners, a dangerous botnet called as Beebone (also known as AAEH) was hunted down. The operation is of significant importance because Beebone is a polymorphic downloader bot that reproduces itself […]

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