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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...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev
- 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,...
- Tags: ESThost, Atrivo
- 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...
- Tags: Spammer, Translation Service, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Tags: Registrar, Termination, ICANN, EstDomains, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Dancho Danchev
- 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 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet
- 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)...
- Tags: Atrivo/Intercage, spam level
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled "May 2008 Badware Websites Report" summarizing the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer...
- Tags: Web, Search Engine, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- 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...
- Tags: Web site development, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spyware, adware & malware, Web technology, Spyware, Cyberthreats, bot, Circuit City Stores Inc.
- 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....
- Tags: Yapbrowser
- 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...
- Tags: SpywareQuake
- 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...
- Tags: anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- New spyware trick - fake keylogger scare tactics by rogue anti-spyware
- I don't know if these rogue anti-spyware/spyware pushers are getting desperate, or they think no one will notice, but super rogue Razespyware, which earned a place on the top 10 rogue anti-spyware of 2005, has a new very dirty and very deceptive trick to frighten users into paying for the...
- Tags: keylogger, InterCage Inc., fake keylogger
- Blog posts 2006-01-20
- 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...
- Tags: PestTrap website, Intercage.com, InterCage Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-01-18
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