Slovenia (ip-192.com): After a two year investigation, police arrested three hackers linked to the Mariposa botnet in Slovenia. The botnet was used to steel passwords, credit card and bank account information. Mariposa was built around a computer virus known as "Butterfly bot" and was use to launch denial of service attacks. Industry experts estimate that [...]
Trojan targets critics in Vietnam
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hanoi (ip-192.com): A new malware attack in Vietnam was discovered by Google. Critics of a controversial bauxite mining project backed by China have been the target of the attack, several newspapers report. Malicious software was used to infect potentially tens of thousands computers around the world, mainly owned or operated by Vietnamese speaking people. "These [...]
800,000 Personal Records Compromised
March 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
Madrid (ip-192.com): Personal details relating to 800,000 were found on a computer after the Spanish police arrested three ringleaders connected to a botnet called Mariposa, the Spanish word for butterfly (ip-192.com reported here). The botnet controlling almost 13 million people did have enough power to bring down the IT-infrastructure of a whole country, said the [...]
Mariposa botnet taken down
March 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
Madrid (ip-192.com): Computers in more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and at least 40 big financial institutions were infected with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data. The Mariposa botnet, the Spanish word for butterfly, controlled more than 13 million PC’s in 190 countries. The Spanish police arrested the masterminds [...]
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