Monday, April 21, 2008

Ten Signs It's a Slow News Week

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You know it's a slow news week when you come across : 1. Articles starting that malware increased 450% during the last quarter - of cour...

Phishing Tactics Evolving

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Malware authors, phishers and spammers have been actively consolidating for the past couple of years, and until they figure out to to verti...

The Rise of Kosovo Defacement Groups

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There's no better way to assess the incident that still haven't made it into the mainstream media, but to violate defacement group...

China's CERT Annual Security Report - 2007

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Every coin has two sides, and while China has long embraced unrestricted warfare and people's information warfare for conducting cyber...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Phishing Emails Generating Botnet Scaling

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A bigger and much more detailed picture is starting to emerge, with yet another spammed malware campaign courtesy of the botnet that is so f...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Fake Yahoo Greetings Malware Campaign Circulating

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The persistence of certain botnet masters cannot remain unnoticed even if you're used to going through over a dozen active malware campa...

Web Email Exploitation Kit in the Wild

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XSS exploitation within the most popular Russian, and definitely international in the long-term, web email service providers is also embraci...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Malware and Exploits Serving Girls

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Descriptive domains such as beautiful-and-lonely-girl dot com, amateur homepage looking sites, a modest photo archive of different girls, ap...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Localized Fake Security Software

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Would you believe that in times when top tier antivirus vendors are feeling the heat from the malware authors' DoS attacks on their hone...

ICQ Messenger Controlled Malware

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IM me a command, master - part two . Diversifying the command and control channels of malware is always in a permanent development phrase, w...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Romanian Script Kiddies and the Screensavers Botnet

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Shall we turn into zombies, and peek into the modest botnet courtesy of Romanian script kiddies, that are currently spamming postcard.scr gr...
Monday, April 07, 2008

Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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Have you ever wondered what's contributing to the rise of instant messanging spam ( SPIM ), and through the use of which tools is the p...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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I first blogged about the "Cyber Storm" Cyber Exercise aiming to evaluate the preparedness for cyber attacks of several governmen...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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The rise of multiple antivirus scanners and sandboxes as a web service, did not only increase the productivity level of researchers and util...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

HACKED BY THE RBN!

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The RBN 0wnZ 7th1$ Bl0g! April 1st, 2008, St.Petersburg, Russia. The Russian Business Network, an internationally renowned cyber crime power...

Cybersquatting Symantec's Norton AntiVirus

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For the purpose of what? Upcoming fraudulent activities, again courtesy of Interactivebrand's undercover domains portfolio having regis...

UNICEF Too IFRAME Injected and SEO Poisoned

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The very latest, and hopefully very last, high profile site to successfully participate in the recently exposed massive SEO poisoning , is U...

A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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On the look for creative approaches to cash out of selling commodity tools and services, malicious parties within the underground economy co...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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A new phishing scam is currently in the wild, emails pretending to be from Bank of ****** were detected by *****, anti spam vendors are indi...