Media Coverage

Shadowserver in the news

An Inside Look at the Russian Business Network

Dark Reading, January 11, 2008

A new white paper published by the nonprofit botnet-tracker Shadowserver Foundation sheds some light on one segment of activity on the Russian Business Network (RBN).

Bringing Botnets Out of the Shadows

Washington Post, March 21, 2006

Nicholas Albright’s first foray into some of the darkest alleys of the Internet came in November 2004, shortly after his father committed suicide. About a month following his father’s death, Albright discovered that online criminals had broken into his dad’s personal computer and programmed it to serve as part of a worldwide, distributed network for storing pirated software and movies.