Friday, September 21, 2007

The Truth Serum - Have a Drink!

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Which security vendor would you rather choose if you were to ignore your current Return on Security Investment model ? The one telling you ...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

DIY Phishing Kit Goes 2.0

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With the release of the second version of the DIY phishing kit that I covered in a previous post, next to commentary on another one and a ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Custom DDoS Capabilities Within a Malware

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DDoS capabilities within a malware are nothing new and are in fact becoming a commodity feature, but compared to the average DDoS-ers with ...

Two Cyber Jihadist Blogs Now Offline

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Jihad Fields are Calling and The Ignored Puzzle of Knowledge are down, apparently the authors themselves decided to delete them compared t...
Monday, September 17, 2007

A Chinese Malware Downloader in the Wild

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This is an example of a recently released in the wild DIY downloader with rather average features such as the ability for the malware author...

PayPal and Ebay Phishing Domains

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As I needed another benchmark for a creative typosquatting next to my best finding of this World of Warcraft domain scam , I stumbled upon t...

Storm Worm's DDoS Attitude - Part Two

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After commenting on Storm Worm's logical connection with the recent DDoS attacks against anti-scam web sites , SecureWorks timely releas...
Friday, September 14, 2007

U.S Consulate St. Petersburg Serving Malware

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If that's not a pattern and good timing, it's a malicious anomaly. On the 31 of August, 2007, Bank of India was serving malware cou...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

209 Host Locked

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Ever came across this fake error message? A "209 Host Locked" message on a fraudulent domain is the default indication that you...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Storm Worm's DDoS Attitude

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Stage one - infect as many end users with high speed Internet access as possible through the use of client side vulnerabilities . Stage two ...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Google Hacking for MPacks, Zunkers and WebAttackers

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If wannabe botnet masters really wanted to hide their activities online, they would have blocked Google's crawlers from indexing their d...

Popular Web Malware Exploitation Techniques

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Who needs zero day vulnerabilities to achieve a widescale malware infection these days? Obviously the lack of this popular in the past prere...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

Infecting Terrorist Suspects with Malware

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As we've already seen in the past, cyber jihadists, thus wannabe terrorists, use commercial anti virus , anti spyware and anonymity sof...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Examples of Search Engine Spam

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Perhaps I should say an example of a 50/50 black hat SEO, as Google's not listing the first, but has already crawled the second - cashho...

Storm Worm's Fast Flux Networks

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Following my previous posts on " Storm Worm Malware Back in the Game " and " Storm Worm's use of Dropped Domains ", ...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Login Details for Foreign Embassies in the Wild

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Login details for international embassies have been in the wild since August 30th in a full disclosure style : " Here is a list with...

DIY Exploits Embedding Tools - a Retrospective

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Great analysis by the Spywareguide folks -- Chris Boyd and Peter Jayaraj in this assessment -- especially my deja vu moment with the King...
Monday, September 03, 2007

Spammers and Phishers Breaking CAPTCHAs

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The emergence of CAPTCHA based authentication was a logical move in the fight against automated brute forcing of login details, registration...
Friday, August 31, 2007

Bank of India Serving Malware

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Ryan at ZDNet's Security blog is reporting on the breached site of Bank of India , which in the time of blogging is still serving malw...

Malware as a Web Service

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Popular malware tools such as binders and downloaders usually come in a typical software application form. Moreover, when I talk about malwa...