Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Compromised Web Servers Serving Fake Flash Players

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The tactic of abusing web servers whose vulnerable web applications allow a malicious attacker to locally host a malicious campaign is nothi...

Twitter Malware Campaign Wants to Bank With You

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In what appears to be a lone gunman malware campaign -- where the malware spreader even left his email address within the binary - the now...

The Twitter Malware Campaign Wants to Bank With You

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In what appears to be a lone gunman malware campaign -- where the malware spreader even left his email address within the binary - the now...
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...