Law enforcement agencies from around the world took part in a coordinated operation to disrupt the botnet used to spread the malware known as Gameover Zeus and seize computer servers crucial to the ...

Criminals are using a Zeus botnet to pillage Charles Schwab investment accounts, a security researcher said Friday. The attacks show that while authorities were arresting more than 100 members of one ...

The Zeus botnet remains a robust network that is difficult to destroy despite an international sting operation that saw dozens arrested this week for allegedly stealing money from online bank accounts ...

Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he ...

Beware a surge in the number of ZeusVM Banking Trojan-based botnets operating in the wild, since the tools for building and customizing the cybercrime malware are now available for free. See Also: ...

The Department of Homeland Security along with the FBI and Department of Justice have made sweeping moves to shut down the systems of the GameOver Zeus Botnet. GameOver, which has infected hundreds of ...

The fraudulent email warned consumers that their tax payments had been rejected by the IRS and directed them to a website that was part of a large Zeus botnet. The site infected the computer and then ...

Last week, the Justice Department and FBI announced they had thrown a monkey wrench into the GameOver Zeus botnet. A multinational effort that involved Europol, government organizations, researchers, ...

Malicious software used to steal millions from bank accounts has re-emerged a month after US authorities broke up a major hacker network using the scheme, security researchers say. The security firm ...

Computer security firm NetWitness discovered a botnet that, according to the firm, has compromised 75,000 systems at 2,500 organizations, including 10 federal agencies. Approximately 75,000 computer ...

Forcing users to clean their infected computers on an ongoing basis would be more disruptive to cyber criminals than botnet takedowns The recent effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus botnet includes ...