Monday, August 04, 2008

McAfee's Site Advisor Blocking n.runs AG - "for starters"

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Following the recent, and now fixed false positive blocking sans.org due to the already considered malicious dshield.org and giac.org it...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Summarizing July's Threatscape

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July's threatscape -- consider going through June's summary as well -- once again demonstrated that nothing is impossible, the impo...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Storm Worm's Lazy Summer Campaigns

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The Storm Worm-ers seem to be lacking their usual creativity in respect to the usual social engineering attacks taking advantage of the mome...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Dissecting a Managed Spamming Service

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With cybercrime getting easier to outsource these days, and with the overall underground economy's natural maturity from products to ser...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Neosploit Team Leaving the IT Underground

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The Neosploit Team are abandoning support for their Neosploit web exploitation malware kit , citing a negative return on investment as the m...

Over 80 percent of Storm Worm Spam Sent by Pharmaceutical Spam Kings

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It used to be a case where a botnet would be used for a single purpose, spamming, phishing, or malware spreading. At a later stage, the stea...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

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It gets very ugly when someone owns both, the botnet, and the portfolio of parked domains actively participating in PPC (pay per click) adve...

Smells Like a Copycat SQL Injection In the Wild

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In between the massive SQL injections , that as a matter of fact remain ongoing, copycats taking advantage of the very same SQL injection to...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front

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How much malware is your antivirus solution detecting? A million, ten million, even "worse", less than a million? Does it really m...

Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front

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How much malware is your antivirus solution detecting? A million, ten million, even "worse", less than a million? Does it really m...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Vulnerabilities in Antivirus Software - Conflict of Interest

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Vulnerabilities within security solutions -- antivirus software in this case -- are a natural event, however, the conflict of interests and ...

People's Information Warfare vs the U.S DoD Cyber Warfare Doctrine

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Which doctrine would you choose if you had the mandate to? Dark room a We cannot discuss these if we don't compare their cyber warfare a...

Email Hacking Going Commercial

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This email hacking as a service offering is the direct result of the public release of a DIY hacking kit consisting of each and every public...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd

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The result of building extra confidence into your malicious hosting provider's ability to remain online , is a scammy ecosystem that...

Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire

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What type of antivirus evasion do you want today? For the past several years, we have been witnessing the emerging customerization applied i...