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Violating OPSEC for Increasing the Probability of Malware Infection

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2008-07-11 19:39:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infection by on purposely lowering down the security settings of Internet Explorer, by adding their malicious netblocks and domains into "Trusted Sites"? You bet The infamous Smitfraud or PSGuard Desktop Hijacker, has been cooperating with known malicious parties for over an year now, a cooperation which exposes interesting relatinships...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, smitfraud, smitfraud infection, successful malware infection, sacrifice operational security, operational security, malware pcs, infamous smitfraud
 
 
 
 
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What Happens When You Mix A Real Infection With A Mass Mail Hoax?

2008-06-23 17:51:03 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
...infection - namely, the Storm Worm . I'm all for spreading the word on infections going around, but as the emails talk about a "new threat incoming" (specifically, the title of the forwarded mail is "Subject: read this!Please read: Big Virus coming") when the Storm Worm has actually been around for some time, it seems almost perverse to be...
 
Tags: virus simply destroys, virus, real virus, norton anti-virus, postcard virus contribute, mail, postcard virus, destructive virus, hoax virus
 
 
 
 
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Stay vigilant against computer infection

2008-04-07 15:24:49 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Great article that will make you want to bookmark it for future reference clipped from flowingwater.wordpress.com How to beat spyware and viruses > not by me?:D Heres what to do if you suspect an infection on your Windows PC. (Please note these steps apply to both Windows XP and Vista
 
Tags: steps apply, windows, future reference, infection, spyware, suspect, wordpress, vista, note
 
 
 
 
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Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet

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2008-07-11 17:46:17 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...infection files Of course, the "exclusive Simpsons episode" is nothing of the kind - what you actually download is a file about 150kb in size, and it looks like this Run the file, and you won't see a new Simpsons episode - you're actually more likely to see this a strange error message that mentions "photos" (probably fake),...
 
Tags: simpsons, simpsons fan, simpsons fans, exclusive simpsons episode, infection, infection files, real error messages, error messages, infection activity
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet Master's To-Do List

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2008-04-26 14:36:23 by HASH0x8ae3c28 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infection vectors used, or end up as a backdoor-ed commodity for experienced botnet masters to sent to novice ones, is entirely up to the coder, or perhaps module copy and paster. Some are going as far as implementing quality assurance approaches to ensure their malware has the lowest possible detection rate, before spreading it, on the anti...
 
Tags: botnet, commodity malware bots, malware bots, to-do list, wannabe botnet masters, malware, botnet masters, malware botnets, anti malware
 
 
 
 
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The Checklist

2008-02-07 20:14:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...infection, that the costs of following the checklist are far outweighed by the cost savings. Still, it would have been nice to see a cost comparison between the two What is also interesting though is that in the hospital setting its generally quite clear what an adverse event is. We generally know when someone has an infection, we certainly...
 
Tags: secure, develop secure software, software, software development organizations, health, health care delivery, security, checklist, software development world
 
 
 
 
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The End of Neosploit?

2008-07-24 00:00:00 by RSA FraudAction Research Labs in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...infection stage. The goal is to infect as many users as possible, as quickly as possible -- and remain undetected for as long as possible Neosploit is a brand that could be relied upon to solve that problem rather well. Designed to ease the infection stage, Neosploit is an infection kit which exploits numerous system vulnerabilities and...
 
Tags: neosploit, infects pcs worldwide, pcs, infection stage, neosploit checks, malware, infection kit, remain, solve
 
 
 
 
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Riders on the Storm Worm

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2007-12-28 11:35:58 by HASH0x89eeda4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infection vector by itself. And despite that I'm monitoring the use of such IPs from the first campaign in this campaign on a limited set of Storm Worm infected PCs, the next couple of days will shred more light into whether they'll start using the already infected hosts as infection vectors, or remain to the descriptive domains already used...
 
Tags: storm worm, storm worm campaign, storm, campaign, technical contact, contact, highly descriptive domains, sample blogspot urls, descriptive domains
 
 
 
 
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MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

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2007-12-05 12:08:56 by HASH0x89e6630 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infection vector , and not a single zero day one How are risks hedged? Risks are hedged by following the simple diversification principle, which from a malicious perspective means increasing the probability for success. By using a single exploit URLs like the MDAC in this case, the chances for success are much lower compared to...
 
Tags: exploit, day, day vulnerabilities, htm, malware, malware exploitation kit, single exploit urls, vulnerabilities, storm worm apparently
 
 
 
 
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The Pseudo "Real Players"