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With 20,000 sites swallowed up, a botnet is eating WordPress alive

Hackers controlling a botnet of over 20,000 infected WordPress sites are attacking other WordPress sites, according to a report from The Defiant Threat Intelligence team. The botnets attempted up generate logins on up to five million logins on legit WordPress websites within the thirty days.
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Hacker infects 100K routers in latest botnet attack aimed at sending email spam

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The Andromeda botnet still lingers as nations struggle to clean infected PCs

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An all-in-one botnet is on the rise, packing a scary buffet of attacks

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U.S. claims North Korea has been silently infiltrating networks since 2009

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Internet of Things malware Hajime is creating a botnet from 300,000 devices

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Feds say they’ve finally killed notorious Kelihos spamming botnet

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Sunday’s major internet outage in Germany was probably a botched hack attack

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Internet of Things was the source of largest botnet attack in history

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Update: Actually, Hola’s security issues aren’t even worse than feared

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Hola! Hola found to be selling users’ bandwidth as botnet

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Europol busts behemoth botnet, 3.2 million strong

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Android malware threat rears its head again — and this time it means business

A malware threat first observed in 2012 has hijacked more than 4 million Android devices and is now putting enterprise networks at risk.
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Unix botnet Operation Windigo steals your credentials and sends tons of spam

An Internet security research team has discovered "Operation Windigo," a Unix botnet which has infected thousands of systems.
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‘Pony’ is a botnet that steals Bitcoins

Beware of "Pony," the botnet that's been swiping Bitcoins.
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Microsoft, FBI aim to rescue those hit by ZeroAccess malware

Microsoft and law enforcement officials are teaming up to combat the ZeroAccess botnet.
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Hackers stole 2M Facebook, Twitter, and Google passwords – here’s how to stay safe

Security researchers have uncovered a criminal botnet that has stolen over 2 million passwords from sites like Facebook and Google.

Socialbot gang ‘steals’ personal data from 3,000+ Facebook users

Microsoft paying out $250k for info on Rustock botnet operators

TDL-4 creates 4.5 million PC ‘indestructible’ botnet

Microsoft Spambot infographic (Rustock) (March 2011)

Microsoft still after Rustock botnet operators

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Feds to remotely delete Coreflood from infected PCs

FBI tackles Coreflood botnet infecting 2.3 million PCs

Microsoft Spambot infographic (Rustock) (March 2011)

Microsoft behind Rustock takedown

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Waledac botnet poised for comeback?

Man behind a third of the world’s spam heading to court

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Mariposa Botnet Developer Arrested in Slovenia

Spanish Police Bust Mariposa Botnet Bosses

Court Approves Microsoft Action Against Waledac Botnet