The Independent

Botnets: How your computer might secretly be doing the work of international criminals

The Andromeda galaxy. Just like the cluster of stars, the various computers in a botnet are linked together despite looking separate if you're close enough to them (Nasa) Your computer or router looks ...
The Daily Telegraph

What is a DDoS cyber attack? And could my computer be a weapon?

One of the most potent tools in a cyber criminal's arsenal is the 'distributed denial of service' attack – commonly known as a DDoS attack. These prolific hacks can take even the most protected ...
The Daily Telegraph

Botnets: How can you protect your computer?

A gang of Ukranian hackers has taken control of almost two million computers worldwide, including machines in large corporations and government departments, creating a giant "botnet". So how do you ...
Techlicious

Was Your Computer Part of the World’s Largest Botnet?

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...
elEconomista

BOTNETS: How Hackers Can Control Your Computer Remotely For Mayhem And Profit

How do Trojan viruses infect your computer? Where does spam come from? How do hackers gain control over your computer? Often times, the answer is via botnet. A botnet is nothing more than a small ...
Yahoo

FBI Botnet Warning: Is Your Computer Running VPN Malware?

The free but malicious VPN apps created to connect to the 911 S5 service are: MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN. Here are full instructions on how to check if one of them ...
IBTimes UK

Won't pay? No problem, Cerber ransomware adds your PC to a botnet to send out DDoS attacks

Security researchers say that the Russian Cerber ransomware now adds victims' PCs to a botnet sending out DDoS attacks, in addition to hijacking their PCs iStock For the first time ever, cybersecurity ...
BBC

Botnets: your computer in the hands of organised crime

Botnets are arguably the pre-eminent source of internet crime, vast networks of hi-jacked "zombie" computers that rival some of the largest supercomputers in their aggregate power. Used to distribute ...
IBTimes UK

Ramnit botnet dismantled as UK warned over computer attack

Law enforcement agencies from across Europe have dismantled a network of over 3.2 million infected computers which have been stealing banking and personal information from their victims Reuters Law ...
ITWire

iTWire - Zombie computers and botnets - a growing threat that won't go away

No doubt the botnet makers are doing all they can to stay one step ahead of us all. Make sure you have a backup system that regularly and automatically backs up your data to a removable drive, such as ...
BBC Technology

The battle against the botnet hordes

On 11th February a US teenager who used the online nickname of "Sobe" pleaded guilty to delinquency charges resulting from his surreptitious installation of adware on hundreds of thousands of ...