Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Identifying the Gpcode Ransomware Author

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Interesting article, but it implies that there has been a shortage of quality OSINT regarding the campaigners behind the recent Gpcode targ...

A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Seven

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In case you haven't heard - Microsoft and the Washington state are suing a U.S based -- naturally -- "scareware" vendor Branc...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Modified Zeus Crimeware Kit Comes With Built-in MP3 Player

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Modified versions of popular open source crimeware kits rarely make the headlines due to the fact that anyone can hijack a crimeware kit...

The Commercialization of Anti Debugging Tactics in Malware

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Commoditization or commercialization, Themida or Code Virtualizer, individually crypting or outsourcing to an experienced malware crypting ...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Hijacking a Spam Campaign's Click-through Rate

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This spammer is DomainKeys verified , a natural observation considering that the spam compaign which I discussed last Wednesday is using bo...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

250k of Harvested Hotmail Emails Go For?

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$50 in this particular case, however, keeping in mind that the email harvester is anything but ethical, this very same database will be sold...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Six

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Thanks to misconfigured traffic management kits, not taking advantage of all the built-in features that could have made a research a little ...

Two Copycat Web Malware Exploitation Kits in the Wild

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We're slowly entering into "can you find the ten similarities" stage in respect to web malware exploitation kits, and their co...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Spam Campaign Abusing Yahoo's Services

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Think spammers.Yahoo.com trusts Yahoo.com, consequently, a spam campaign that using bogus Yahoo.com email accounts, and spamming only Yahoo ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

EstDomains and Intercage VS Cybercrime

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Surreal, especially when you get to read that EstDomains has " ruthlessly suspended over five thousand domains only for last week ...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild - Part Two

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The less technologically sophisticated lone cybercriminals have always enjoyed the benefits of stand alone DIY applications. From DIY exploi...

Adult Network of 1448 Domains Compromised

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With millions of malware infected PCs participating in a botnet, the probability that a high profile end user whose domain portfolio consist...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Summarizing August's Threatscape

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Following the previous summaries of June's and July's threatscape based on all the research published during the month, it's t...
Thursday, September 04, 2008

Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for August

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Here's a concise summary of all of my posts at Zero Day for August. If interested, consider going through July's summary , subscrib...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

The Commoditization of Anti Debugging Features in RATs

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Is it a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) or is it malware ? That's the rhetorical question , since RATs are not supposed to have built...

Copycat Web Malware Exploitation Kits are Faddish

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For the cheap cybercriminals not wanting to invest a couple of thousand dollars into purchasing a cutting edge web malware exploitation kit ...