Sunday, December 16, 2007

Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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Google, with its almost real-time crawling capabilities, has rarely proved useful while researching malware embedded sites who were cleaned ...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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Keep your allies close, the human right violators closer. French officials have been receiving lots of criticism by human rights groups reg...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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It's February, 1999, and two senior colonels from China's PLA, namely Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui depressed the world's militar...

Phishing Metamorphosis in 2007 - Trends and Developments

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WindowSecurity.com have just published my second article entitled " Phishing Metamorphosis in 2007 - Trends and Developments " : ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Update on the MySpace Phishing Campaign

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It seems that the parties behind the Large Scale MySpace Phishing Attack which I covered in a previous post, have recently changed the main...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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Here's a very detailed , and recently released event-study on Malicious Websites and Underground Economy on the Chinese Web , and this ...

Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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In a recent article entitled " Popular Spammers Strategies and Tactics " I emphasized on the consolidation that's been going o...

The Shark Malware - New Version's Coming

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Remember Shark, the DIY malware pitched as a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) , whose publicity among script kiddies, and the press given t...
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 ...