Monthly Archives: April 2011

Fake AV: A royal wedding present

Just like millions of other people around the globe, we at StopBadware woke up today to headlines trumpeting the highlights of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. It’s not just the British who are riveted to this once-in-a-lifetime … Continue reading

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StopBadware to develop best practices for malware reporting

Last month, we released a set of best practices for hosting providers responding to malware reports. The best practices are intended  to address inconsistency within the industry about how to responsibly and effectively respond to malware reports; they lay out … Continue reading

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Recommended reading

In the past couple months, we’ve come across some particularly informative and well-written reports and articles about badware. Here, for your reading pleasure, are a few of our favorites: Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence by Daniel Plohmann, et. al. … Continue reading

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The Coreflood takedown: building a better, broader botnet response

Wednesday’s court-sanctioned takedown of the Coreflood botnet by the Department of Justice and the FBI has made big headlines in badware news. This is the second high-profile takedown to make it through the U.S. court system in as many months; … Continue reading

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