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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Two U.S. government agencies are offering a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a Russian man suspected of having served as an administrator for the destructive ...

Security experts have found a network of 74,000 virus-infected computers that stole information from inside corporations and government agencies. The unusual thing about the incident is not that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...