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 [...]
Mountain View (ip-192.com): Internet users in China experience new disruptions when they try to use Google’s search engine. Queries are dropped even for innocent searches that have not been censored before. Several media reports indicate that almost all searches on Google initiated by users in mainland China seem to be blocked now. Google confirmed that [...]
Boston (ip-192.com): Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping to organize massive credit and debit card thefts from national retailers such as BJ’s Wholesale Club, Barnes & Noble, OfficeMax and TJX. The sentencing judge described the case as "the largest and most costly example of computer hacking in [...]
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 [...]
Alexandria (ip-192.com): A Virginia court cleared the way for Microsoft to deactivate a global network of computers that spreads spam and harmful computer code, the Wall Street Journal reports. The hacker-controlled “botnet” has 277 dot-com domains. Microsoft apparently aims to sever communications channels to the botnet before its operators can re-establish links to the network. [...]
China (ip-192.com): While representatives from Lanxiang Vocational School and Shanghai Jiaotong University denied any involvement in hacking attempts against Google and other western targets, U.S. cyber experts believe they have traced the hacking attack on Google to the two educational institutions in China, several newspapers report today. US investigators also say that they have identified [...]
