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 [...]
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 [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Online scammers are taking advantage of users interested in the Google Doodle, Google’s special logo collection, to spread malware, using a technique called "SEO poisoning." They create special malware-rigged Web sites or hide malware on legitimate Web sites they've compromised and then use tags associated with popular search terms to get them [...]
Sydney (ip-192.com): Jail-broken iPhones are the target of the first known worm that hijacks iPhones. A hacker who identifies himself as "ikex" created the worm. The worm works by trying to find other jail-broken iPhones on the same cell phone network. If the iPhones are still set with their default SSH password, the worm installs [...]
