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- The Storm Worm would love to infect you
- The Storm Worm malware is back in the game, with its most recent campaign currently active and trying to entice users into executing iloveyou.exe by spamming them with links to already infected hosts acting as web servers, next to SQL injecting malicious domains into legitimate sites for the campaign to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
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- Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery
- If you ever wanted to take an inside view of targeted-botnets primarily run by novice cybercriminals sometimes utilizing outdated, but very effective methods - this ZDNet photo gallery is for you. It offers an inside view of those "beneath the radar" botnets that never make the news....
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Waledac botnet spamming fake SMS spying tool
- Waledac is once again using its well proven social engineering tactics by introducing a "fake SMS spying tool" (free.exe; smstrap.exe; install.exe; setup.exe etc.) and Online Casinos theme, in an attempt to further expand the botnet. No client-side vulnerabilities are used for the time being, instead the cybercriminals...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Fake "Conficker Infection Alert" spam campaign circulating
- Researchers at Marshal8e6's TRACElabs have intercepted a spam campaign that's issuing bogus "Conficker Infection Alerts" and redirecting users to rogue security software upon clicking on the links. The event-based social engineering campaign is also impersonating various Microsoft security departments in order to improve its truthfulness. This is...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
- Update: BBC Click's tweet states that they took legal advice following comments on the potential violation of U.K's Computer Misuse Act. There's a slight chance that you may have unknowingly participated in a recent experiment conducted by the BBC. In a bit of an...
- Blog posts 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...
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; iPhone; Storm; iLife patch
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 - The "Blue Badge" experience. Gallery right Michael Krigsman: Sixteen IT failures to remember Garett Rogers: Google makes the blogosphere...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
- FBI warns of new Storm worm variantMessage has been deleted.RE: FBI warns of new Storm worm variantThis is a perfect example of a target attack on a very large scale. It seems this is now the new direction for phishing attacks and links to malware. Even the tecgh-savvy would have...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign
- A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Blizzard introducing two-factor authentication for WoW gamers
- Password stealing malware targeting popular MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft for instance, has become so prevalent, that video game developers are taking their authentication model a step further, by introducing two-factor authentication into play. And while marketable, is the new authentication layer actually useful in a real life situation?...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- News to know: Microsoft's social bookmarking; Google vs. Viacom; Adventures in Linux; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd Larry Dignan: Google: Viacom's YouTube lawsuit threatens DMCA. Full complaint. Techmeme Ed Bott: Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic? ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Tracking down the Storm Worm malware
- Tracking down the Storm Worm malwareHaving Knowledge Isn't Necessarily Communicating KnowledgeI respect Mr. Danchev's superior techincal knowledge of Web security. But it's very frustrating to read his run-on, wandering, multiple-car-wreck sentences. Absent a good editor at ZD, Mr. Danchev needs a course in business composition or journalism. Both disciplines teach...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- Tracking down the Storm Worm malware
- What is the current state of Storm Worm activity, how many infected IPs are found to host the malware on a daily basis, which are the latest domains used by the Storm Worm, and which countries have the largest infected population? You can easily find that out, if you keep...
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- The Storm Worm would love to infect you
- The Storm Worm would love to infect youUm... It this page a stormworm vector??It certanly looks suspiciousRE: The Storm Worm would love to infect youWhat the heck is that article The Storm Worm would love to infect you talking about? I didn't understand any of it.Will ZDNet please please hire...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Fast-Fluxing SQL injection attacks executed from the Asprox botnet
- The botnet masters behind the Asprox botnet have recently started SQL injecting fast-fluxed malicious domains in order to enjoy a decent tactical advantage in an attempt to increase the survivability of the malicious campaign. I first assessed the Asprox botnet in January, and again in April when it started scaling...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Defense-in-depth starts with DNS
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by David Ulevitch How do you stop computers on your network from becoming a part of massive botnets? Maybe you just trust that your desktop anti-virus definitions are up-to-date. When was the last...
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
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