A new family of DDos bots started showing up in our sandboxes in May. The first sample was analyzed on May 7, and since then our sandboxes have processed over 70 specimens from this family. Upon further analysis, it turns out that we had actually started receiving specimens as early as March, 2010. We have [...]
This week agents from the US Customs and Homeland Security agencies seized assets (including DNS domain names) from fifteen streaming Internet video companies, including PlanetMoviez.com, Movies-Links.tv, Filespump.com, Now-Movies.com, ThePirateCity.org, NinjaVideo.net, NinjaThis.net and TVshack.net. The below graphic shows the colorful DOJ / ICE warning now greeting visitors to these disabled domains. We include the previous homepage [...]
As the World Cup enters the knock out phase, a quick look at the impact of the games on the Internet infrastructure. In particular, will millions of office workers (lacking television access during office hours) drive an overwhelming flood of desktop video and disrupt Internet communication? Has the Internet finally met its match in the [...]
