The Australian government on Monday recruited five Internet service providers to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch denial-of-service attacks from within the country. These ...

Three suspects in a Dutch crime ring hacked 1.5 million computers worldwide, infecting them with a worm to create a "zombie" network of infected computers that stole passwords and credit card data, ...

Microsoft's action, which was done in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Consumer Action, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, was part of a call to arms against zombies, ...

Home computers with an always-on broadband connection can fairly easily be compromised with a worm or Trojan horse that can turn them into “zombies” – computers that can be used by spammers to ...

Botnet-infected 'zombie' computers are an ever-growing risk, and IT security vendors are taking notice and offering more ways to fight back Data leakage prevention might currently be the hottest IT ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor ASA stumbled on the ...

The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life. Security vendors say spammers are reconnecting with hacked PCs used for sending spam as evidenced by a rising number of spam messages ...