When the famously anonymous Tor Network went from about 500,000 users to roughly 3.5 million users in less than a month, experts concluded a botnet was at work.
As the threat landscape continues to advance, attackers have become better at developing tools and attacks that get around the signatures anti-virus (AV) rely on. But is sandboxing AV's silver bullet?
The Hesperbot trojan has been distributed via sophisticated phishing emails impacting online banking customers in the Czech Republic, Turkey and Portugal.
Researchers found that the mobile malware, which primarily targets Russian users, is being delivered via rented botnets that also spread other Android trojan.
