Tag archive: cyber criminals

According to Kaspersky Lab, a new TDSS rootkit variant called TDL-4 has infected more than 4.5 million PCs worldwide in just the first three months of 2011. The security experts say that this sneaky malware is one of the most technologically sophisticated threats to date. Because of upgrades from the previous TDL-3 incarnation, this new TDL-4 has the ability to create a botnet that is practically 'indestructible'. TDL-4 is a… Read More

A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday. Scotland Yard's electronic crimes unit said a man and a woman, both 20, were arrested Nov. 3 on suspicion of helping spread malicious Trojan computer programs sometimes known as “Zbot” or “ZeuS.” Police said the viruses are thought to have… Read More

Although the motivation for the attack remains unknown, early Tuesday attackers launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against the Internet's core DNS servers, which are ultimately responsible for converting human-friendly site names (like www.digitaltrends.com) to IP numbers (like 209.85.60.103) which computers, routers, and software uses behind the scenes. Think of DNS as the ever-updating address book for the millions of… Read More