Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Decrypting and Restoring GPcode Encrypted Files

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The futile attempt to directly attack the encryption algorithm used by the GPcode ransomware, is prompting Kaspersky Labs to invest in a mor...

Summarizing June's Threatscape

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June's threatscape that I'll summarize in this post based on all the research conducted during the month, was a very vibrant one. Wi...
Monday, June 30, 2008

The Malicious ISPs You Rarely See in Any Report

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The recently released badware report entitled “ May 2008 Badware Websites Report " lists several Chinese netblocks tolerating maliciou...
Friday, June 27, 2008

ICANN and IANA's Domain Names Hijacked by the NetDevilz Hacking Group

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The official domains of ICANN , the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA , the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Right Wing Israeli Hackers Deface Hamas's Site

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Compared to historical hacktivism tensions between different nations, Israeli and Palestinian hacktivists seem to be most sensitive to ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Backdoording Cyber Jihadist Ebooks for Surveillance Purposes

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It appears that cyber jihadists are striking back at the academic and intelligence community, by binding their propaganda Ebooks with malwar...

Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware

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Ah, that RBN with its centralization mentality for the sake of ease of management and 99.999% uptime. In this very latest example of using m...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

An Update to Photobucket's DNS Hijacking

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With Photobucket’s recently hijacked DNS records by Turkish hacking group , the second high profile DNS hijack for the past two months next ...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Underground Multitasking in Action

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How many ways in which a malicious party can abuse its unauthorized access to a host, can you think of? In this example of remotely file inc...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Phishing Campaign Spreading Across Facebook

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Phishers have once again indicated their interest in obtaining fresh passwords for social networking sites, by using the already hacked acco...

Fake Celebrity Video Sites Serving Malware

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With blackhat search engine optimization tactics clearly converging with social engineering , the result of which is the increasing supply o...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Zeus Crimeware Kit Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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Just like you have sophisticated cyber criminals trying to scam wannabe cyber criminals by providing them with backdoored web malware exploi...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Malicious Doorways Redirecting to Malware

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