December 12th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua An international study has revealed a staggering 6% of household computers are harbouring malicious botnets. This equates to over one million households in the UK alone being in regular connection to the criminal networks. The botnets attack websites, send spam, and pass on personal information (such as bank details) to criminals. The Dutch researchers who [...]
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Tags: Botnet, Cyber-Security, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking 
1 Comment » November 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Promoting web resources on internet can help in driving traffic to your website, One of the well-known black hat way is using bot-network for sending spams or advertisement, Bot is a special program that will work to automate certain tasks so a hacker will be sending just one instruction for the C&C server that will [...]
August 17th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to new research conducted by M86 Security Labs, number of malicious spams has increased in a significant way in August. Last week spams increased by 13 per cent while this week it has reached the 24%. Majority of these spams are coming from Cutwail botnet, Festi and Asprox . Previously Microsoft has shut down [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Asprox, Bagle, Bobax, Botnet, Cutwail, Cyber spying, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Fivetoon / DMSSpammer, Fuflo, Gheg, Lethic, Maazben, Malware, Rustock, Spam, SpyEye, Waledac, Xarvester No Comments » July 19th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft announced to offer 250 000$ reward for any information that helps to arrest cybercriminals behind Rustock the biggest spamming botnet. Previously in June Microsoft published two notices in Russian newspapers to notify the Rustock operators of the civil lawsuit. Now, Microsoft promised to pay a quarter million dollars to those who could help them and [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malwares Tags: Botnet, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malware, Rustock, Spam, Trojan No Comments » February 20th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Rustock is today the largest and most productive spam botnet in the world this has been found at the RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco. The Rustock botnet (founded around 2006) consists of an estimated 250,000 computers the size of Rustock is related to the constantly evolving technologies. Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research at [...]
December 31st, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua 1- STUXNET STUXNET has been the hottest topic for this year because it’s an unusual Worm it is for the first time in the history that a malware bypass the cyberspace to get directly to the physical environment, the virus not only damage the code and data but also it destroy the real machine. Reversing [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malwares, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Asprox, Botnet, Malware, Security, STUXNET, TDL4 11 Comments » November 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Botnet Number that is controlled over web servers are five times the number of botnets controlled by IRC-channels this is according to a new research conducted by Team Cymru Security experts. The IRC botnet has decreased significantly due to some limitation over controlling and sending different instruction by the command-and-control (C&C) servers. “the US is [...]
