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Localizing Cybercrime - Cultural Diversity on Demand

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2008-02-21 17:06:11 by HASH0x8b1e62c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Localization as a concept will attract the coders attention By localization of malware, I mean social engineering attacks, use of spelling and grammar free native language catches, IP Geolocation, in both when it comes to future or current segmented attacks/reports on a national, or city level. We are already seeing localization of phishing...
 
Tags: future, future malware trend, trend, malware, malware authors, demand, russian malware, services, demand translation services
 
 
 
 
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The Icepack Exploitation Kit Localized to French

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2008-05-23 17:01:44 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...localization trend (page 18). Localization has been silently taking plance in the IT underground for the last couple of years, and as of recently going mainstream, followed by the localization of such popular web malware exploitation kits such as MPack , Icepack and Firepack , all to Chinese The long term impact of localization will improve...
 
Tags: french, localization trend, localization, native language, malicious services, spam providers, translation, foreign languages, malware
 
 
 
 
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Segmenting and Localizing Spam Campaigns

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2008-05-02 07:01:43 by HASH0x8af6990 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...localization in each of their multinational campaigns, thereby increasing the probability for a higher response, was a logical trend to come, one that we're currently witnessing on a large scale. Outsourcing the localization process by using translation services on demand , for anything starting from phishing emails and spam, and going to...
 
Tags: spam, market, fashion spammers, market participants, spammers, spam message, emails, email databases, localization process
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...localization of knowledge from English2Arabic is taking place the way propaganda is also localized from Arabic2English, and there's also an ongoing networking going on between cyber jihadists and Turkish hacktivists converting into such on a religious level . Case in point - MuslimWarriors.Org defacement campaigns with "anti-infidel" related...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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DIY Fake MSN Client Stealing Passwords

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2008-01-17 10:06:24 by HASH0x8b6b58c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...localization, abuse of public events as windows of opportunities, and the lack of any kind of segmentation. One-to-many may be logical from an efficiency point of view, but it's like embedding a single exploit on hundreds of thousands of sites compared to a set of exploits, or a set of techniques like in this case
 
Tags: msn, percent, restore msn, malware, data, msn messenger, email, email account, publicly obtainable stats
 
 
 
 
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Localized Fake Security Software

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2008-04-14 08:04:53 by HASH0x8ae5d20 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Localization for anything malicious is already taking place , as ori ginally anticipated as an emerging trend back in 2006. The following currently active fake security software scams are promoted in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and you don't get to download them until you hand out your credit card details, and once you do so, you'll end...
 
Tags: avsystemcare, antiworm2008, malicious, fake security applications, portfolio, malicious campaigns, sample fake brands, antivirusforall, one-to-many communication channel
 
 
 
 
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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
...localization of the bot to other languages once enough features have been developed to distinguish it among the rest of the commodity malware bots From a wannabe botnet master's perspective, the more propagation vectors added, the higher the probability for infection, however, the probability for infection is also proportional with the...
 
Tags: botnet, commodity malware bots, malware bots, to-do list, wannabe botnet masters, malware, botnet masters, malware botnets, anti malware
 
 
 
 
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Ethical Phishing to Evaluate Phishing Awareness

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2008-05-06 17:26:25 by HASH0x8af66c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...localization and segmentation of phishing campaigns , the next logical development would be the public release of a point'n' click web interface for managing real phishing campaigns Or perhaps a public leak, given that someone out there might have already came up with such an interface, without the sexy layout? And by the time there hasn't...
 
Tags: awareness, interface, click web interface, employees awareness, web interface, employees, susceptible employees, phisher, susceptible
 
 
 
 
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The Template-ization of Malware Serving Sites

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2008-07-10 16:59:13 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...localization to different languages , and of course, the natural lowering of entry barriers into web malware and phishing in general, the very same thing is happening with fake ActiveX templates like the ones used on the majority of fake porn and celebrity sites I've been assessing recently The increase of these bogus ActiveX templates is...
 
Tags: malicious domains remain, malicious domains, tonsofporn activex remains, tonsofporn activex, domains, generic detection approaches, generic detection, activex, fake activex