Friday, December 07, 2007

A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software

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The recently exposed RBN's fake security software was literally just the tip of the iceberg in this ongoing practice of distributing sp...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

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Who needs zero day vulnerabilities when the average end user is still living in the perimeter defense world and believes that security means...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Censoring Web 2.0 - The Access Denied Map

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Remember the World's Internet Censorship Map ? This is a niche version of it that's " mapping the online censorship and anti-c...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Malware Serving Online Casinos

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Don't play poker on an infected table part two. The following three online casinos are currently serving embedded malware in the form o...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

66.1 Host Locked

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Having found a static pattern for identifying a Rock Phish domain a couple of months ago in the form of the bogus " 209 Host Locked ...

Which CAPTCHA Do You Want to Decode Today?

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Once you anticipate your success, you logically start putting more efforts into achieving a decent level of efficiency in the process of bre...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A TrustedSource for Threats Intell Data

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Following the series of posts on early warning security events systems , Secure Computing have just announced a major upgrade of their thr...

Are You Botnet-ing With Me?

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Informative and recently released study by ENISA on the problem of botnets , especially the emphasis on how client side vulnerabilities sur...

I See Alive IFRAMEs Everywhere - Part Two

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The never ending IFRAME-ing of relatively popular or niche domains whose popularity is attracting loyal and well segmented audience, never e...
Monday, November 26, 2007

But Malware is Prone to be Profitable

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Read this a couple of times , than read it several more times, and repeat. It's usually "powerful stuff" that prompts such con...

Exposing the Russian Business Network

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It was about time someone comes up with an in-depth study summarizing all of the Russian Business Network's activities, as for me person...
Friday, November 23, 2007

The State of Typosquatting - 2007

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The recently released " What’s In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007 " is a very in-depth and well segmented study into the ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

A Botnet of Infected Terrorists?

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Redefining malware to minimize the negative public outbreak by renaming it to Remote Forensic Software, now that's a evil marketing depa...

Mass Defacement by Turkish Hacktivists

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At first it appeared that it was just the official site of Goa's DoIP , that's been defaced by Turkish defacers , but looking furthe...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Large Scale MySpace Phishing Attack

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In need of a "creative phishing campaign of the year"? Try this, perhaps the largest phishing attack spoofing MySpace and collecti...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

The "New Media" Malware Gang

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Since Possibility Media's Malware Fiasco , I've been successfully tracking the group behind the malware embedded attack at each and ...

But of Course I'm Infected With Spyware

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Remember those old school fake hard drive erasers where a status bar that's basically doing a directory listing is shown, and HDD activi...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Lonely Polina's Secret

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Just as I've been monitoring lots of spam that's using Geocities redirectors , yesterday Nicholas posted some details on a malware c...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

First Person Shooter Anti-Malware Game

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Just when you think you've seen everything "evil marketers" can come up to both, consciously and subconsciously influence your...

Cyber Jihadist Blogs Switching Locations Again

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Having had their blogs removed from Wordpress in a coordinated shutdown operation courtesy of the wisdom of the anti cyber jihadist crowd , ...