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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
...hosts on demand, is pretty much like the Botnet on Demand one, with the only difference in its marketing pitch, namely, these are malware infected hosts as well, however, access is offered through them, but not to them. The degree of maliciousness of these hosts can only be measured once the exact IPs are known, and by degree of maliciousness...
 
Tags: hosts, malware, socks hosts, malware infects hosts, top application, application, stones, top, activities
 
 
 
 
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A Chinese DIY Multi-Feature Malware

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2008-05-08 07:56:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...hosts with an interesting option to measure the bandwidth in order to properly allocate it for DDoS attacks has a built-in dropping capability for backdooring the already infected hosts through a web shell has a built-in dropping capability of several exploits onto the infected hosts in order to use the infected hosts as infection vectors, a...
 
Tags: malware, chinese, china diy malware, chinese underground, source malware, diy malware kit, chinese hacktivists, tools, dos tools
 
 
 
 
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Statistics from a Malware Embedded Attack

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2008-02-13 17:01:04 by HASH0x8bf8c1c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...hosts of a group that's sharing infrastructure with the RBN, namely UkrTeleGroup Ltd as well as Atrivo. For yet another time they didn't bother taking care of their directory permissions. Knowing the number of unique visits that were redirected to the malware embedded host, the browsers and OSs they were using in a combination with confirming...
 
Tags: malware, malware kit, hosts, malicious hosts, sample malware, infrastructure, vertuslkj, operational intelligence approach, statistics
 
 
 
 
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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
...hosts can not only be used as stepping stones , but also for the purpose of sending out phishing emails, and hosting the domains used in the scams themselves, thereby forwarding the responsibility for the scams to the infected parties, in between remaining relatively untraceable. The malware variants are still in the wild, and the ecosystem...
 
Tags: net, botnet, bkdr agent, agent, microsoft, hosts phone, domains, hosts, ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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Benevolent Worms

2008-02-19 06:57:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...hosts. Most existing worms randomly probe computers when looking for new hosts to infect, but that is inefficient, says Vojnovic, because they waste time exploring groups or "subnets" of computers that contain few uninfected hosts This idea pops up every few years. This is what I wrote back in 2003, updating something I wrote in 2000: This is...
 
Tags: software worms spread, worms, software, bad software distribution, worm, successful worm, beneficial worms, software distribution mechanism, worm quieter
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion at Stedmans.com exposes credit card information

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2008-03-23 00:37:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hosts one of our websites, www.stedmans.com, that personal information collected from consumers through the website may have been compromised through an unauthorized intrusion into the server that stores information from individuals who purchased products at our website Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach...
 
Tags: credit, information, credit card, credit cards, equifax credit, report credit, stedmans, information security professionals, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Great re-visit on a little known tip about blocking Malware

2008-07-02 23:53:53 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...hosts file. I like this site clipped from pctechbytestoday.com Modify Your Hosts File to Block Malware By now, most of us know what spyware is and what it can do to your computer. If your PC is connected to the Internet, chances are you have some form of spyware. It attaches to your PC as you casually roam websites or download files....
 
Tags: malware, hosts file, block malware, block, malware websites, spyware, tip, roam websites, site
 
 
 
 
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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...hosts. Weve been witnessing this consolidation for quite some time now, and some of the recent events greatly illustrate this development of an underground ecosystem . Take for instance the cases when spam comes with embedded keyloggers , when phishing emails contain malware , and a rather ironical situation where malware infected hosts...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Hosts ( OS may be dependent on simulated events for randomness Given the exploding popularity of virtualization, this is an area worthy of research. Stay tuned Design of the Got Entropy Service Many RNGs (such as the one included in Linux, as well as OpenSSLs) allow the addition of entropy from outside sources. So I started looking to Entropy...
 
Tags: entropy, random, 32-byte random, byte, hardware random, entropy sources, sequence, random sequence, pull entropy