A new, detailed analysis of the operations of the infamous Cutwail/Pushdo botnet shows that the network, which had been he target of several takedown attempts in the last couple of years, is not only ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Spammers using one of the world's largest botnets only get a third of their messages through -- even so, they still successfully sent nearly 90 billion spam messages in just one month last year using ...

Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that’s better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts. The ...

The cybercrime group behind the Gameover Zeus Trojan that steals online banking creds and credit card numbers is waging a massive malicious email campaign that enlists the massive Cutwail spamming ...

With U.S. and South Korean government Web sites hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks this week by a botnet controlled by an unidentified attacker — North Korea is suspected, however — the ...

A botnet responsible for a significant amount of spam has been crippled but may reconstitute itself in a matter of weeks, according to vendor M86 Security. The Pushdo or Cutwail network of hacked ...

American and German researchers who infiltrated and crippled one of the world’s biggest spam-producing networks last summer have released a formal paper on the experience, and the numbers are ...

One of the world’s most active spam botnets — Grum — was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security ...