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- Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?
- With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Campaign, Cybercriminal, Search, Marketing Research, Strategy, Security, Marketing, Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic
- Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- 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
- When you see Chrome OS think business model
- When you see Chrome OS think business modelI stopped reading at."But when you consider the $50/year price to license an anti-viral, the $30/year to license a malware program and the additional $30/year you need for a registry cleaner"Talk about exaggerating the costs to justify the rest of your article. Not...
- Tags: Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Inc., operating system, malware, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-07-10
- News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook
- 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. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability
- Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- CardCops: Stolen credit card details getting cheaper
- The dynamics of the underground marketplace are pretty similar to that of the legitimate marketplace, with cybercriminals demanding and supplying, consolidating and start to work together, and coming up with new monetization approaches in order to continue enjoying the high profit margins of their goods and services. The once highly...
- Tags: Credit Card, Price, Service, Credit Card Detail, Cloned/Expired Card, U, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals
- Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...
- Tags: Program, Pharmaceutical Company, Pharmacy, Affiliates, Wire Cost, MarkMonitor, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Businesses Under Cybercrime Attack - The Risks, the Impact and the Solution
- This paper gives an insight into the cybercrime economy, including the latest Crimeware attacks and business models. It also outlines the long-lasting effects of successful cybercrime for enterprises and its executives. Off late digital information age "Data Equals Money." As a result, cybercrime has evolved into a booming worldwide business....
- Tags: Cybercrime, Finjan Software Inc., Attack, Cyberthreats, Security, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Management
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Healthcare and Cybercrime - The Risks, the Impact and the Solution
- Off late digital information age "Data equals money." As a result, cybercrime has evolved into a booming worldwide business. Viruses, malware and online crime have moved from vandalistic hacking into a major shadow economy that closely mimics the real business world, including profit-driven organized cybercrime. Money is driving the growth...
- Tags: Cybercrime, Finjan Software Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-08-01
- 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
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Finjan uncovers half a gigabyte of stolen data on crimeware servers
- Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center has uncovered a half of gigabyte of stolen data from US Healthcare organizations and from a major airline on crimeware servers in Argentina and Malaysia. A representative of Finjan stated: "Hackers incorporated sophisticated attacks using crimeware toolkits, Trojans, and Command and...
- Tags: Web, Patient, Data, Finjan Software Inc., Health Care, Server, Cybercriminal, Crimeserver, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Social Security, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Government, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Anti-Spyware: How to Prevent Spyware With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
- Cybercrime is booming and money is the driving force behind the growth of targeted attacks against corporate networks that steal business data that can be sold on to other criminals. Spyware has evolved from an online nuisance to a dire web threat. Cybercriminals use Spyware programs to hijack users' sensitive...
- Tags: Finjan Software Inc., Anti-spyware, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2008-04-01
- US Government leadership in cyber security lacking
- US Government leadership in cyber security lackingWar on TechnologyI can see a great headline coming someday; WAR ON TECHNOLOGY: US Seeks to Fight War on Technology.Peace and Cheers,mpNote that the official quoted......holds a patronage appointment, which gives us a good idea of who to blame for this state of...
- Tags: US Government leadership, cyber security, cybercrime, U.S. Government, leadership, government, security
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- RSA 2007: DHS's Greg Garcia gets organized for cybersecurity battle
- At a town hall meeting at the RSA 2007 Conference in San Francisco, Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications, described the environment in which his agency operates:"The next ten years there will be a single integrated IP network that serves all needs," Garcia...
- Tags: General, Security, Government, Greg Garcia
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Cyber crime gangs are learning to work together
- Cyber crime gangs are learning to work togetherHonor among thieves?I doubt it. It may work this time, but sooner or later, somebody's going to cheat, unless, of course, the rules are enforced with firearms, which is traditionally how organized crime works.Linux utilityQuoting:Roger also talks about how they used a...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Cellular phones, High Technology Crime Investigation Association, forensics, Cyber-crime gang, IP, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2006-10-11
- Blogging from the front lines of the RIAA wars
- Blogging from the front lines of the RIAA warsHere is a clue... It is NOT the RIAA vs. the people !It's the RIAA, MPAA and all copyright holders against Pirates and facilitators of theft. Stealing and illegally distributing copyright protected works be it music, video, software, etc. IS A CRIME...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, blog, blogging, copyright holder, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2006-09-16
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