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Inside a Botnet's Phishing Activities

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2008-02-25 09:34:49 by HASH0x8b44f48 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...activities are exposed, it's also important to mention the fact that besides the phishing activities, this is the botnet that's been sending out the recent fake Microsoft Critical Live Update emails
 
Tags: net, botnet, bkdr agent, agent, microsoft, hosts phone, domains, hosts, ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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RBN's Phishing Activities

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2008-02-27 13:20:49 by HASH0x8b05fb8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...activities due to its modularity. Basically, the botnet master can easily configure to which fake phishing site the infected population would be redirected to, if they are to visit the original one with no more than three clicks. And so, for the purpose of historical preservation of CYBERINT data given the quality of the identical screenshot...
 
Tags: rbn, html, historical screenshot, screenshot, rbn urls, network, russian business network, nuklus production speaks, nuklus
 
 
 
 
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Whats driving the MSSP craze - critical, but non-core functions are fair game for outsourcing

2008-06-13 03:29:37 by HASH0x8bb419c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...activities, critical, but non-core activities and core and critical activities. A company is never going to outsource core, critical activities. Outsourcing non-critical, non-core activities are a no brainer. Showing companies that outsourcing critical, non-core activities is the key to success of the service provider market. These are...
 
Tags: critical, non-core, core, critical activities, non-core activities, activities, security, mssp, outsource core
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...activities. "There have been changes in leadership, and we have strengthened our practices and protocols in this area," Clark said At a gathering of security specialists in New York City in January of 2006, David Harrison, the former Army military intelligence officer who was hired by Senser to head Wal-Mart's analytical security research...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Malware Infected Hosts as Stepping Stones

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2008-02-21 22:03:01 by HASH0x8b1f7bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...activities have been going on in the past as well. Moreover, such commercial propositions are directly related with proxy threats, ones outlined in a KYE paper entitled " Proxy Threats - Port v666 " discussing various detection and mitigation approaches In typical proxybot infections we investigate proxy servers are installed on compromised...
 
Tags: hosts, malware, socks hosts, malware infects hosts, top application, application, stones, top, activities
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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2008-03-31 03:21:55 by HASH0x8b37d14 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...activities In the very same way, malware authors apply Quality and Assurance practices to their malware releases by sandboxing, making sure they have a low detection rate by scanning them with all the anti virus scanners available, as well as ensuring they'll phone back home through bypassing the most popular firewalls , phishers tend to put...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain
 
 
 
 
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Over 80 percent of Storm Worm Spam Sent by Pharmaceutical Spam Kings

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2008-07-29 03:29:54 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...activities simultaneously - today's underground multitasking improving the monetization of what used to be commodity goods and services Today, a botnet will not only be sending out phishing emails , automatically SQL inject vulnerable sites across the web , but also, provide fast-flux infrastructure to money mule recruitment services , all...
 
Tags: storm worm, storm worm malware, storm, hardcore storm worm-ers, storm worm-ers, malware, botnet, botnet masters, botnet spam
 
 
 
 
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The Need for Adware and Spyware Blocker

2007-08-01 19:11:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...activities. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society but how about the use of spyware to intercept credit card details and the like. There is simply no excuse for the lax of the use of spyware What ordinary people can do to protect themselves is to block spyware and all other software...
 
Tags: spyware, spyware blocker, spyware programs, block spyware, adware, computer, computer bug, personal computer, people
 
 
 
 
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The Fox and the Henhouse

2008-01-28 15:02:17 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...activities of one of the bank's derivatives traders Societe Generale apologized for the losses, and explained a three-day delay in announcing the fraud publicly by saying that bank officials needed time to unwind as many of the fraudulent positions as possible in order to limit the bank¹s losses Although Societe Generale did not identify the...
 
Tags: societe generale, societe generale begins, yesterday societe generale, societe generale appears, risk management lessons, risk management, risk management personnel, plain vanilla futures, apparently