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- Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks
- Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom†that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...
- Tags: Enterprise Network, Espionage, Cyberthreats, Spam, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- 9/11 related keywords hijacked to serve scareware
- Anticipating the logical peak of 9/11 related keywords on the 8th anniversary of the attacks, cybercriminals have hijacked the trending topic by occupying thousands of related keywords for the purpose of serving fake security software. None of the sites are currently marked as harmful by the SafeBrowsing...
- Tags: Campaign, Malware, 9/11 Commission, Keyword, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- ImageShack hacked by anti-full disclosure movement
- During the weekend, ImageShack, among the Web's top ten most popular free image hosting services got compromised, with the millions of images hosted on it redirected to a single one explaining why it was hacked. The anti-sec group responsible for the compromise describes itself as a "movement...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Zero-day Bug, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Channel Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Michael Jackson's death themed malware campaigns spreading
- The sudden death of Michael Jackson quickly opened a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to capitalize on. With a malicious spam campaign, blackhat SEO search results poisoning which is serving scareware within the first 100 search results for Michael Jackson's death, and an opportunistic participant in Zango...
- Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, Spam, Michael Jackson, Malware Campaign, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Cybercriminals promoting malware-friendly search engines
- The cybercriminals behind the ongoing blackhat search engine optimization attacks hijacking swine flu related queries in order to serve scareware, have re-introduced an old social engineering tactic - the use of fake and malware friendly search engines. Researchers from PandaLabs have recently uncovered a similar malicious search...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Malware, Cybercriminal, Search, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
- In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion. Despite that their analysis also considered a much...
- Tags: Cost, Infection, Malware, Worm, Conficker, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Russian, Euro cybermafia own your data
- This report from Verion Business PDF, as reported in the Washington Post, offers some interesting numbers amid the obvious conclusion that cybercrime is conducted by organized crime. 100 data breaches involving 285 million consumer records (think you weren't touched)? 93 percent of...
- Tags: Card, Attack, Verizon Business, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Inside BBC's Chimera botnet
- Earlier this month, the controversial BBC purchase of a botnet and modifying the infected hosts in the name of "public interest" sparked a lot of debate on the pros and cons of their action. Condemned by certain security vendors, and naturally, at least from guerrilla PR perspective, applauded and encouraged...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Malware, Chimera Botnet, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Web 2.0 Expo: Recommended sessions for social business
- It's about that time to gear up for Web 2.0 Expo (#w2e) next Tuesday through Friday at Moscone West in San Francisco. I am excited about the content that TechWeb / O'Reilly Media, Inc., has produced and I have put together the following schedule for myself. Why should you care?...
- Tags: Web, Social Media, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- New study details the dynamics of successful phishing
- Can you teach an old employee new phishing protection tricks? In a recently presented study by the Intrepidus Group, the company behind the PhishMe.com spear phishing awareness service allowing companies to ethically attempt to phish their employees on their way to build security awareness, presents some interesting...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Russia engaged in cyber war with neighboring countries
- This January marked "the third successful cyberattack against a country" -- when suspected Russian attackers distributed a denial of service attack that overwhelmed three of the four Internet service providers in Kyrgystan, disrupting Internet access, reports DefenseTech. The culprit? The IP traffic was traced back to Russian-based...
- Tags: Cybercrime, Russia, Attack, Security, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- 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
- Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
- Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly because they have plenty of alternatives via third party applications such as QuickTime, RealPlayer and WinZip. That's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Third Party Application, Chances, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised
- Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...
- Tags: Taiwan, Hacking, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate 10 gov't databases
- If you needed a university certificate in China during the last couple of months, there's a big chance that a group of ten people could have supplied with you such, going a step further and adding your details in more than ten government databases across different provinces in the country,...
- Tags: China, Cybercrime, Hacking, Certificate, Government Database, Shanghai Daily, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori' What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 'Mojave Experiment' - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Malware, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, BIOS, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit
- The end of the Neosploit web malware exploitation kit? RSA's FraudAction Research Labs recent monitoring of ongoing communications between Neosploit team members and their potential customers indicates so. The Neosploit malware kit has been around since the middle of 2007, with prices varying between $1000 and $3000, whose main differentiation...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Neosploit, Neosploit Malware Kit, Malware Kit, Neosploit Team, Web Malware Exploitation Kit, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
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