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- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Researchers from MX Logic -- now part of McAfee -- have intercepted a new malware campaign spammed by the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet, that's using an 'IRS unreported income' notices in an attempt to trick the recipients into downloading a tax-statement.exe executable. The Pushdo/Cutwail botnet remains among the most...
- Tags: Income, Malware, Internal Revenue Service, Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharers
- Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharersAnd after they lose alot of customers.. they will do what?I know these media companies think that ISP's should disconnect the users but why would an ISP cut off its feet?Its dumb. Let the courts handle it and if they dont want to, then...
- Tags: INTERNET, sharer, file sharer, Virgin, piracy, suspension
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- 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...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, FTC, Spam Volume, 3FN/Pricewert, Marshal8e6, Rustock, Pricewert, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Business Security, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Business Operations, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- News to know: FTC vs. botnets; Microsoft; Apple WWDC; Twitter
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP. FTC statement Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Typo'd Google domains in Top...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, WWDC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., FTC, NEC Corp., Twitter, Darwin, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telephony, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Monitors & Displays, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP
- The Federal Trade Commission FTC has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content. Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) was shut down by a district court...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Server, Bot, FTC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- New Mac OS X email worm discovered
- New Mac OS X email worm discoveredA bit naive Unfortunately for Linux, social engineering works pretty well unless the user is well informed.At this stage most Linux users [u]are[/u] well informed. But as any OS gains in popularity, the userbase becomes less and less so.Both OSX & Linux are...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Also-there, Linux, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCsWouldn't it be best to inform peopleIf they have zombie PC's in their homes? I mean, it isn't like the ISP's couldn't see that "Hey, this data is shooting to a known zombie PC site.... let's inform the person who uses this...
- Tags: Zombie PC, McAfee Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- BBC: Botnet purchase experiment was in 'public interest'
- BBC: Botnet purchase experiment was in 'public interest'These so-called security firmsought to be doing the same. To uncover the people behind the sale of botnets, while at the same time removing a few thousand from malicious use.I guess they are 'dependents' on this sort of thing. And that's why they...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, British Broadcasting Corp., computer, botnet, BotNet, public interest, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxDid the BBC break the law?Surely what the BBC did was in contravention of the UK Computer Misuse Act?They made unauthorised changes to people's computers without their permission. Sophos has been asked many times by the media to take part in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Team management, SECURITY, Spam, team, British Broadcasting Corp., botnet, BBC team
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet
- Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnetBad Legal Advice was the Cause of the Present QuandaryThat is, both ISPs and legislators in the various countries have fallen victim to the same bad source of worse legal advice: lawyers!After all: if they had been thinking when they came...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Storm Worm Botnet
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet
- What if security researchers were able to disrupt the leftovers of the Storm Worm botnet thanks to a flaw in its communication model allowing them to redirect infected hosts and eventually disinfect them, but fearing legal action have their hands tied? At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress,...
- Tags: Node, Malware, Worm, Stormfucker, Waledac, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- 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...
- Tags: Continuity, Internet Service Provider, McColo, Spam Volume, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this yearBingo - ! ntntBotnets = WindowsXP machines used by inexperienced people are the main backbone of botnets.Call me a zealot, but if everyone was using Linux - as user - this simply wouldn't be happening. The Linux platform is hostile to both the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, SECURITY, botnet, attack, Linux, virus, vaccine, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- BBC hit by a DDoS attack
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc.co.uk) was hit by a DDoS attack on Thursday, according to a statement sent to the Inquirer : "In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of different countries but didn't specify which. When the Beeb's techies blocked...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- 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...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008I proposed a solution a while back.Any ISP can see who is compromised. That's obvious from the accurate stats you have. My idea, simply put, enforce all zombied machines to a proxy. This proxy...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Verizon Telecom Italia, Verizon Telecom, Zombied, Brasil Telecom, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- 300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
- A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- A security company wants you to DDoS its servers
- "There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary" - Brendan Behan. Ypigsfly, a company describing itself as a group of seasoned veterans of the Internet network infrastructure business, has just launched Killthisbox.com, a DDoS challenge enticing you to knock down the site for 15 minutes in...
- Tags: Server, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Debunking yet another bogus malware study
- Debunking yet another bogus malware studyExcellent analysisI guess that people have come to expect bad news so much that journalists no longer verify their sources; if it's bad news about computer threats, it must be true.To be fair, this sort of problem (relying on bad sources that themselves rely on...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, bogus malware, malware, OECD, Microsoft Windows XP, spyware
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
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