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- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ISPs hosting spyware - who are they?
- Recently I mentioned ISPs hosting spyware and said "Everyone in the anti-spyware community knows who these ISPs are." Now we have a perfect example. It starts with a SANS post today recommending to unblock an IP range they previously recommended blocking. Based on feedback from Intercage customers,...
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
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- Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services
- For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity. Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown
- Following last week's shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert's operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo's shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn't seem...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!
- In a post-McColo, post-Atrivo and post-EstDomains cybercrime ecosystem, the researchers at FireEye have recently launched a "Bad Actors series" aiming to put the spotlight on some of the currently active badware actors online. The sampled ISPs represent safe heavens for drop zones for banker malware, DNSChanger malware, rogue security software...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again
- It was only a matter of time for spam volume to sky rocket again, despite McColo's shutdown in November. Two weeks after the cybercrime-friendly ISP got disconnected from the Internet, spam volumes are increasing once again with the main botnets using it as a command and control location regaining their...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Cybercrime friendly EstDomains loses ICANN registrar accreditation
- Despite EstDomains persistent press releases during the last couple of days, next to the domain registrar's delayed response to the security community, on Thursday the ICANN has sent a notice of termination of their registrar accreditation agreement with EstDomains, following obtained court records stating that EstDomains president Vladimir Tsastsin has...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levelsWhose side are you on? ntnt = no textWhose side are you on? ntOn the objective one.Objective?I dunno, it sounds to me like you're:a) Giving them advice on what to do nextandb) Telling the rest of us how useless it is to fight them"objective"?Re: Objective?a)...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Circuit City forum hacked to infect users with spam bots
- Circuit City learned today that their customer forum was recently hacked, exposing their users to malware. The forum software, Invision Power Board, had a security vulnerability that was patched on May 17. Initial reports indicated from May 13 until today, Circuit City estimated that about 200 registered users visited. A...
- Blog posts 2006-06-02
- 180solutions sponsors Yapbrowser and... child porn?
- My head is swimming and I feel ill. I just read the blogs about 180solutions' latest -- Yapbrowser, installed from 180's servers no less, that directs all search requests to child porn sites. And this from a company that has made countless claims of cleaning up their act....
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- SpywareQuake - newest rogue, replacing SpyFalcon and SpyAxe
- Since I first heard about SpywareQuake, late yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours ago, I've seen dozens of complaints about it already. SpywareQuake is being installed without notice or consent, hijacks the desktop and pops up a warning from the system tray that the machine is infected with spyware. It...
- Blog posts 2006-03-25
- New rogue anti-spyware and SpySheriff clone
- These rogue anti-spyware programs seem to multiply like rabbits. Just 2 days ago I wrote about Spy-Shield, an anti-spware app that installs adware from BestOffersNetwork Then yesterday SunbeltBLOG featured another new rogue anti-spyware app named BraveSentry. The Sunbelt researchers found a domain running exploits and force installing not just one...
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- More super rogue anti-spyware
- Be on the lookout for another new supposed anti-spyware program that might be hijacking desktops any day now. This one is called PestTrap and it's a clone of SpySheriff. SpySheriff was one of the top 10 rogue anti-spyware apps of 2005, coming in at number 2. You can...
- Blog posts 2006-01-18
- SpyAxe anti-spyware installed by trojan
- Supposed anti-spyware program SpyAxe is installed by a trojan named zlob.cy (aka Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob) according to F-Secure. SpyAxe showed up on the scene about two months ago and has earned quite a name for itself. SpyAxe manages to appear on users' desktops without any notice or consent, as seen here, with...
- Blog posts 2005-12-17
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