Hosting firm shutdown forces botnets to relocate
The shutdown Tuesday of a California-based hosting company not only knocked down spam volumes but has also put a dent in malware-spreading botnets and other criminal activity, researchers said today.
While cybercriminals will face some short-term difficulties as they are forced to relocate their operations, the relief will be only temporary for the world’s Internet users, the researchers added.
Thousands hit in broad Web hack
Hackers have launched a massive Web hacking campaign, putting malicious links on as many as 10,000 servers, security vendor Kaspersky Lab warned on Friday.
“We’re estimating that in the last two days alone, between 2,000 and 10,000 servers, mainly Western European and American ones, have been hacked,” Kaspersky wrote on its Web site Friday, “It’s not yet clear who’s doing this.”