Botnet Giants Prepare Fast Flux Phishing Attacks

Responsible for Half of Worldwide Phishing

[incrediBILL]

It appears online criminal giants Rock Phish and Asprox have merged and plan mayhem.

[theregister.co.uk...]

Over the past five months, Rock Phishers have painstakingly refurbished their infrastructure, introducing several sophisticated crimeware packages that get silently installed on the PCs of its victims. One of those programs makes infected machines part of a fast-flux botnet that adds reliability and resiliency to the Rock Phish network.

It also looks like they were responsible for the SQL Injection flare up recently reported:

Asprox is also legendary for the recent spate of SQL injection attacks on high-profile websites

[webmasterworld.com...]

Here we go again, another round with a bigger and badder botnet!

[g1smd]

While you're on El Reg, I found this interesting too:

[theregister.co.uk...]