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Rob Williams - Tue, Dec 17, 2013
Earlier this month, we talked about the frustrating key-logger botnet call Pony, and it now appears that we couldn't make it through the rest of the month without having to discuss another. While the Pony botnet affected the PC, this...
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Rob Williams - Wed, Dec 04, 2013
Here's a bit of news that's far from deserving of a "Giddyup!": Thanks to the work of a botnet called "Pony", hackers have gained access to credentials for over 2 million individual accounts. These accounts span the entire gamut: Facebook...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Feb 07, 2013
In what sounds like a scene out of one of those (well meaning, but never remotely accurate) cyber-action movies, teams of technicians from Symantec and Microsoft’s Digital Crimes unit wielding a court order from the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, were escorted by U.S...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Jul 20, 2009
The eventual creation of botnet(s) based on mobile devices rather than PCs has been theorized about for years, but no such malware has ever appeared in the real worldat least, not until now. Security researchers believe they may have found the first true mobile worm, dubbed "Sexy View" or...
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