Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Over 100 Malwares Hosted on a Single RBN IP

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The never ending Russian Business Network's saga on whether or not they host malware on behalf of their customers enters in an entirely ...

RBN's Fake Security Software

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In need of a good example of coordinated CYBERINT so that enough data is gathered before the domains stop responding or get transfered to a...

Ain't That Ugly?

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During the weekend I stumbled upon a herbal enlargement domains farm hosted on a single IP (210.52.223.26) on their way to start the spam c...

Introducing Jiglu - Tags That Think

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With the idea to make this blog easier to read and much more interactive at the same time, I'm happy to let you know that I've just ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Empowering the Script Kiddies

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What are the chances tools like these, even this one in particular were distibuted to the masses during the Russia vs Estonia DDoS attacks ...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

China's Cyber Warriors - Video

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Originally aired on Discovery Channel, this documentary on Chinese hackers is worth watching in the wake of the recent speculations of Chin...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Random Flickr Jewel - Hold it Right There!

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If you don't respect your privacy, or at least put efforts into preserving it - you don't deserve any, it's simple. Great shot ...
Friday, October 19, 2007

eCrime Researchers Summit 2007 - Papers Available

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Some informative papers covering various aspects of analyzing and protecting against phishing attacks were made available at the beginning o...

Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship

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Following the recently released " Journey to the Heart of Internet Censorship " report, University of Toronto's Citizen Lab t...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Russian Business Network

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In case you haven't come across it before, here's an informative blog whose objective is to track events related to the Russian Busi...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Thousands of IM Screen Names in the Wild

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In the past, malware interested in establishing a one-to-one social engineering communication channel with potential victims, used to crawl ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

MPack and IcePack Localized to Chinese

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It is logical to consider the possibility that once a malware author starts evaluating the benefits out of releasing a malware in an open s...

Fast Fluxing Yet Another Pharmacy Scam

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Spam and phishing are indeed starting to operate behind the curtains of a fast-flux network of constantly changing IPs of malware infected ...

DIY German Malware Dropper

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Yet another publicly available DIY malware dropper this time courtesy of German compared to Russian malware crews, whose releases on the oth...
Monday, October 15, 2007

The Global Security Challenge - 2007

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The Global Security Challenge have just announced the world's five most promising security startups chosen to compete at the GSC Final...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Managed Spamming Appliances - The Future of Spam

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What's the future of spam? Spammers breaking CAPTCHAs of legitimate email providers and take advantage of their clean IP reputation to ...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

A Journey to the Heart of Internet Censorship

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Reporters Without Borders just released their latest report on China's Internet Censorship practices , outlining how exactly bureaucrac...

Does This Blog Speak for Itself?

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Before January 2007, I could only say that I'm glad to have you as a reader of this blog, but with the Talkr-ization of my blog during ...

Fast-Flux Spam and Scams Increasing

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As I pointed out in my last series of posts assessing pharmaceutical scams and phishing campaigns, both, botnet masters , pharma masters , a...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Compromised Sites Serving Malware and Spam

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Wish it was the average .cn domain I'm referring to, in this case it's the web sites of three U.S towns, namely the City of Chetek ,...