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Category: David Brunsdon

  • ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

    ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut,…

  • Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

    Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites —…