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In the overwhelming sea of information, access to timely, insightful and independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) analyses is crucial for maintaining the necessary situational awareness to stay on the top of emerging security threats. This blog covers trends and fads, tactics and strategies, intersecting with third-party research, speculations and real-time CYBERINT assessments, all packed with sarcastic attitude

Monday, August 11, 2008

The Russia vs Georgia Cyber Attack

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Last month's lone gunman DDoS attack against Georgia President's web site seemed like a signal shot for the cyber siege to come a w...
Friday, August 08, 2008

Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for July

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Different audience provokes different approach for communicating a particular event. In case you aren't reading ZDNet's Zero Day , w...

Email Hacking Going Commercial - Part Two

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Malware authors seeking financial gains from releasing their trojans often promote them as Remote Access Tools , which if we exclude the bui...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Phishers Backdooring Phishing Pages to Scam One Another

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There seems to be no such thing as a free phishing page these days, with phishers scamming one another at an alarming rate according to a re...

Pinch Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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In the very same way a cybercrime analyst is reverse engineering and sandboxing a particular piece of malware in order to get a better under...
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...
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Independent Security Consultancy, Threat Intelligence Analysis (OSINT/Cyber Counter Intelligence) and Competitive Intelligence research on demand. Insightful, unbiased, and client-tailored assessments, neatly communicated in the form of interactive reports - because anticipating the emerging threatscape is what shapes the big picture at the end of the day. Approach me at dancho.danchev@hush.com
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