Multi-agent systems

Ljubljana – Coder Matjaž Škorjanc, who has already served his almost five year prison sentence for masterminding a major botnet, will go on trial again after the Constitutional Court annulled the 2013 guilty ruling and two higher-instance court rulings, returning the case to the Maribor District Court for retrial, Večer newspaper reported on Saturday.

There are growing concerns in the ranks of the government over a trend of large crowds gathering in public squares in Athens and other cities in contravention of regulations banning groups of more than 10 people and dictating social distancing.

The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted.

Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research.
The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger.
UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it.

Facebook has thanked Greek Police for its help in taking down a little-known spamming botnet called Lecpetext.

“We would like to thank the Head of the Greek Cyber Crime Division and the police officers involved for the professionalism they showed while investigating this malware,” the California-based company said in a statement posted on its website.

BELGRADE - The police are working on identifying the persons who disabled the Pescanik website, and the results are expected to arrive these days, Police Director Milorad Veljovic stated on Wednesday.

He told reporters that the police are close to discovering where the attack on this website came from.

Peščanik website "came under DDoS attack"

BELGRADE -- The website Peščanik.net was attacked "from thousands of IP addresses around the world in order to bring it down," the daily Danas says.

The Belgrade-based newspaper said it was citing police sources.