Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Dating Spam Campaign Promotes Bogus Dating Agency

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From Sweet Sugar Anastasia, Svetlana, Angela, Marino4ka, Irina, Hot Julia, Ane4ka, Nastya, and Yulia, to the Lonely Polina and the malware ...

Spamvertised Swine Flu Domains - Part Two

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Dissecting a Swine Flu Black SEO Campaign

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Remember the Ukrainian group of cyber criminals that was responsible for last week's massive blackhat SEO campaign that was serving scar...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for April

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The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at ZDNet's Zero Day for April. You can also go through previous summaries for March...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

419 Scam Artists Using NYTimes.com 'Email this' Feature

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In times when more and more scammers/spammers are getting DomainKeys verified , others are finding adaptive ways to increase the probabilit...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Massive SQL Injections Through Search Engine's Reconnaissance - Part Two

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From the lone Chinese SQL injectors empowered with point'n'click tools for massive SQL injection attacks , to the much more efficie...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Spamvertised Swine Flu Domains

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The people behind the ongoing swine flu spam campaign have either missed their marketing lectures, haven't been to any at all, or are s...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Serving Scareware

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Over the past couple of days, I've been monitoring yet another massive blackhat SEO campaign consisting of the typical hundreds of thous...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

A CCDCOE Report on the Cyber Attacks Against Georgia

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Following the coverage of my " Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress " research in the Georgian government's ...

A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Nineteen

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You know things are getting out of hand when the scareware ecosystem scales to the point when typosquatted scareware domains offering remova...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Twitter Worm Mikeyy Keywords Hijacked to Serve Scareware

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Not necessarily in real-time ( Syndicating Google Trends Keywords for Blackhat SEO ) but scareware/fake security software distributors quick...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Conficker's Scareware/Fake Security Software Business Model

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to conclude that sooner or later the people behind the Conficker botnet had to switch to monetizatio...