SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 11 records
 
Expand article

An old/new kind of cybercrime/cybercriminal

2008-04-23 10:13:09 by HASH0x8b4a8bc in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...cybercriminal gangs that are in it for financial gain. Mostly the gain is about identity theft and gaining access to funds fraudulently In the Lending Tree case though there was not evidently a motive to use the ill begotten information for identity theft or fraud. Rather they represented Glengary, Glen Ross leads. That is the names, contacts...
 
Tags: financial gain type, financial gain, gain, information breach, information, gain access, access, competitors information, cybercrime
 
 
 
 
Expand article

An old/new kind of cybercrime/cybercriminal

2008-04-23 11:13:09 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...cybercriminal gangs that are in it for financial gain. Mostly the gain is about identity theft and gaining access to funds fraudulently In the Lending Tree case though there was not evidently a motive to use the ill begotten information for identity theft or fraud. Rather they represented Glengary, Glen Ross leads. That is the names, contacts...
 
Tags: financial gain type, financial gain, gain, information breach, information, gain access, access, competitors information, cybercrime
 
 
 
 
Expand article

The Cost of Anonymizing a Cybercriminal's Internet Activities

The Article has images
2008-10-14 14:27:19 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals consist of? A service operating in Russia that is on purposely not logging any of its user's activities, next to allowing direct spamming from the socks servers, automatic rotation of the VPN servers which they operate in a RBN style hosting provider, or a service using actual malware infected hosts as VPN tunnels not only...
 
Tags: activities, internet activities, malware, actual malware, hosts, multiple malware, malicious activities, network, vpn network
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Summarizing August's Threatscape

The Article has images
2008-09-10 06:57:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals with the ability to launch, host and distribute malware in between abusing the very same company's services for the blackhat SEO campaign and redirection services. Theoretically, a distributed network build upon the services provided by a single company is faily easy to accomplish due to the single login authentication applied...
 
Tags: malware, facebook malware campaigns, usefulness pinch malware, banker malware kits, malware campaigns, botnet, diy botnet kit, distribute malware, banker malware
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Phishers Backdooring Phishing Pages to Scam One Another

The Article has images
2008-08-07 15:01:50 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Cybercriminals attempting to scam other cybercriminals has been happening for years, with old school cases where backdoored malware tools such as crypters and binders are offered for free, or a newly released RAT whose client is in fact infected with a third-party malware. Realizing and definitely not enjoying the fact that the lowered entry...
 
Tags: phishers, myspace phishers, campaign, myspace, rock phish campaign, free phish, free, kits, attack
 
 
 
 
Expand article

More Compromised Portfolios of Legitimate Domains for Sale

The Article has images
2008-11-12 16:19:49 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminal has managed to hijack the blackhat SEO domains portfolio ( 8,145 domains plus another 100 legitimate ones) of another cybercriminal, and is now offering it for sale From an attacker's perspective, are remotely exploitable SQL injections, the insecure hosting provider's web interfaces, or the pragmatic possibility for data...
 
Tags: portfolios, domains, produce anecdotal situations, continues supply, web interfaces, supply, attack tactic, web, access
 
 
 
 
Expand article

What are your bot infected PCs worth?

2008-03-21 12:18:16 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Ever wonder what bot-infected PCs on your network are worth? You should. The higher the value the greater the risk that a cybercriminal will attempt to drop one of these controlling critters on your endpoint devices
 
Tags: endpoint devices, worth, pcs, network, critters, drop, attempt, cybercriminal, risk
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire

The Article has images
2008-07-22 03:52:14 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminal's needs, is today's "listening to the customer" win-win situation that they've reached already The whole maturity from a product concept to customerization is in fact so prevalent these days, that malware authors wanting to preserve their intellectual property are forbidding their customers from reverse engineering their...
 
Tags: malware, malware author, malware authors, malware binaries, malware attacks, ftp, ftp user, collects, malware industry
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Pinch Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

The Article has images
2008-08-07 10:22:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals themselves are actively reverse engineering the most popular crimeware kits, looking, and actually finding remotely exploitable vulnerabilities allowing them to competely hijack someone's command and control, and consequently, their botnet. The Zeus crimeware kit , which I've been discussing and analyzing for a while, is the...
 
Tags: popular crimeware kits, crimeware kits, pinch, crimeware, zeus crimeware kit, popular pinch crimeware, malware, banker malware kit, default crimeware kit