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Fix For Recent WordPress Brute Force Attack Is Easier Than You Think

04/14/2013, Over the past couple of days it has been widely reported that WordPress based sites are being targeted by a massive brute force attack, one that is supposedly backed by a botnet with over 90,000 IP addresses. The nature of [...]

Notorious Cyberspy Caught By His Own Malware

10/30/2012, The nation of Georgia discovered a botnet trying to steal sensitive government documents, and what did they do? They gave the cyber-spy a taste of his own medicine, infecting his computer with the very same software he was targeting governments [...]

Google disputes claims of Android botnet

07/09/2012, Last week, a Microsoft researcher claimed to have discovered an Android botnet, but it looks like it might not exist after all. According to a statement from Google, their analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and a fake [...]

Rustock botnet collapses, world receives less spam

03/18/2011, The Rustock botnet is actually an international network of virus-infected computers that has been taken advantage of for years by generating billions of emails each day in order to promote unlicensed online pharmacies and impotence pills. Well, we have good [...]