Tag Archives : Botnet

The research laboratory of AVG Technologies identified a botnet composed of more than 1.2 million computers. Controlled by criminals, the machines were infected in an attack of Eleonore Explore Toolkit – software that enables contamination control and desktops and notebooks. During the past two months, the team’s Virus Lab AVG observed [...]

The safety in Linux doesn’t seem to be more the same, mainly after Denis Sinegubko, a specialized Russian researcher in safety, discovered that Linux servers can be infected to be used in a botnet used to distribute malware. In his blog, Sinegubko informs that the infected servers can make everything that a domestic “zombie” computer can [...]

Last year, at the same time in that Georgia was under a military attack from Russia, also was attacked by hackers that dropped many of their sites suffered also. American researchers published a report recently affirming that those attacks came from internet users and from Russian gangs, all civil and without any involvement with the government. According [...]