Waledac computer (software) worm

The botnet first appeared on the scene in 2008, under the name Waledac, and morphed into the Kelihos botnet we know today in 2010. During its long history, the botnet had multiple faces and was used for all sorts of cybercrime operations, ranging from cryptocurrency mining to the delivery of banking ...

... news broke from RT.com (formerly Russia Today) that authorities in Spain had arrested 36-year-old Peter “Severa” Levashov, one of the most-wanted spammers on the planet and the alleged creator of some of the nastiest cybercrime engines in history — including the Storm worm, and the Waledac and ...

The Kelihos botnet, also known as Waledac, has become one of the primary sources for ransomware spam in the last few months. The botnet was most recently used to deliver ransomware families such as Wildfire, Hades Locker, CryptFIle2 (or CryptMix) and MarsJoke (or JokeFromMars). The botnet also ...

To neutralize the worm, a Boscovich colleague, TJ Campana, worked with a group of security professionals and they registered the domain names for ... On February 24, 2010, Microsoft announced that a federal court had ordered Verisign to cut off the 277 top-level domains associated with Waledac.

B@mm, a mass-mailing worm from 2002 that targets Internet Explorer versions 4 through 5.5; Spybot, a family of worms that spread using the Kazaa ... In addition, these April 2012 definition files include multiple revised detections for Waledac and Rustock, the Trojans responsible for two prolific spam ...

Kelihos shares a great deal of code with the infamous Waledac botnet, a far more pervasive threat that infected hundreds of thousands of computers and pumped out tens of billions of junk emails promoting shady online pharmacies. Despite the broad base of shared code between the two malware families, ...

An organized crime group thought to include individuals responsible for the notorious Storm and Waledac worms generated more than $150 million promoting rogue online pharmacies via spam and hacking, according to data obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com. In June 2010, an anonymous source using ...

All of these things were clever. They indicated that Conficker's creator was up on all the latest tricks. But the main feature that intrigued the cabal was the way the worm called home. This is, of course, what worms designed to create botnets do. They settle in and periodically contact a command center to receive instructions.

A US judge granted the firm's request to shut down 277 internet domains, which it said were used to "command and control" the so-called Waledac botnet. A botnet is a network of infected ... Machines in a botnet have usually been infected by a computer virus or worm. Typically, users do not know their ...

The botnet first appeared on the scene in 2008, under the name Waledac, and morphed into the Kelihos botnet we know today in 2010.

... creator of some of the nastiest cybercrime engines in history — including the Storm worm, and the Waledac and Kelihos spam botnets.

The Kelihos botnet, also known as Waledac, has become one of the primary sources for ransomware spam in the last few months. The botnet ...

... to the next variant" he says "finally, Conficker E did something nasty: installed the Waledac spambot and SpyProtect " As far as anyone knows ...

... malicious internet worms more than a decade ago—an attitude that, ... So Microsoft joined in a community based effort to rein in the worm. ... A year after Waledac, Boscovich used this argument to seize the Rustock servers.

Kelihos shares a great deal of code with the infamous Waledac botnet, a far more pervasive threat that infected hundreds of thousands of ...

An organized crime group thought to include individuals responsible for the notorious Storm and Waledac worms generated more than $150 ...

A worm is a cunningly efficient little packet of data in computer code, ..... There are three types of the stuff: Trojans, viruses, and worms. ..... well-known malware called Waledac, which sends out e-mail spam selling a fake anti-spyware program.

More than half of the computer systems in the Kneber botnet also have the Waledac Trojan--a worm known to create e-mail spam botnets that ...

Security experts are tracking two computer worms that have infected ... from computers that are being infected with a worm called Waledac that ...