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Friday, January 21, 2011

Top Ten Must-Read DDanchev Posts For 2010

01. How the Koobface Gang Monetizes Mac OS X Traffic
02.  AS50215 Troyak-as Taken Offline, Zeus C&Cs Drop from 249 to 181
03. The DNS Infrastructure of the Money Mule Recruitment Ecosystem
04. The Avalanche Botnet and the TROYAK-AS Connection
05. Koobface Gang Responds to the "10 Things You Didn't Know About the Koobface Gang Post"
06. Sampling Malicious Activity Inside Cybercrime-Friendly Search Engines
07. GazTransitStroy/GazTranZitStroy: From Scareware to Zeus Crimeware and Client-Side Exploits
08. Dissecting Northwestern Bank's Client-Side Exploits Serving Site Compromise
09. U.S. Treasury Site Compromise Linked to the NetworkSolutions Mass WordPress Blogs Compromise
10. TorrentReactor.net Serving Crimeware, Client-Side Exploits Through a Malicious Ad

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