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Security World: iPhone will be a primary target for cybercriminals in 2008

2007-12-12 14:06:29 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Security predictions released by Arbor Networks reveal that the iPhone will be a major target for cybercriminals in 2008. The forecast also highlights Chinese specific crime as a major issue for the N
 
Tags: arbor networks reveal, major issue, iphone, major target, security predictions, cybercriminals, forecast
 
 
 
 
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Pinch Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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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
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing August's Threatscape

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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
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals or real life scammers ( through credit card cloning or ATM skimming ) put into the process of obtaining the details, or can we even talk about investments being made where an experienced scammer has just purchased 1GB of raw credit cards data from a novice botnet master who isn't really aware of the actual value of his "botnet...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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Phishers Backdooring Phishing Pages to Scam One Another

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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
 
 
 
 
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76Service - Cybercrime as a Service Going Mainstream

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2008-08-13 08:08:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals are in fact so self-sufficient, that the stereotype of a mysterious 76service server offered for rent could in fact easily cease to exist in an ecosystem so vibrant that literally everyone can partion their botnet and start offering access to it on a multi-user basis. Evil? Obviously. Extending the lifecycle of a proprietary...
 
Tags: 76service, service, malware, malware kit, cybercrime, malware botnet, botnet, mysterious 76service server, web service
 
 
 
 
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EstDomains and Intercage VS Cybercrime

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2008-09-16 09:09:44 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals you know are better than the cybercriminals you don't know, the RBN or any of its "leftovers" aren't fully taking advantage of the tactics they could be using in order to make it harder to shut them down, but how come? Simply, they don't have to put extra efforts and would once again remain online for years to come, which is...
 
Tags: single rbn, rbn, rbn anti-abuse franchise, estdomains, malware, malware distribution, thousand domain names, domain names, rogue rbn software
 
 
 
 
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Modified Zeus Crimeware Kit Comes With Built-in MP3 Player

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2008-09-29 17:55:03 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cybercriminals are actively modifying crimeware kits , literally making such practices as keeping version numbers irrelevant. While the administrator is managing his botnet, he can load local, or tunein the built-in online radio stations the author of this modification included, next to changing Zeus entire graphical layout Let's take into...
 
Tags: malware, web based malware, botnet, female botnet masters, popular crimeware kits, zeus, crimeware kits, authors, original authors
 
 
 
 
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Virus Center: Dutch authorities apprehend 14 suspects in a phishing scam

2007-12-20 17:52:57 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
IT security and control firm Sophos has welcomed news that Dutch authorities have arrested 14 suspects who allegedly allowed their ABN Amro bank accounts to be used by cybercriminals to store and tran
 
Tags: dutch authorities, control firm sophos, suspects, tran, store, security, news, cybercriminals, allegedly