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Malware infects space station laptops

2008-08-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b905ec in Network World on Security
 
Malware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed today. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit
 
Tags: international space station, malware, nasa, trip, time, virus, orbit, planet, worm
 
 
 
 
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Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire

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2008-07-22 03:52:14 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware and spyware for hire services. What used to be a situation where the malware authors would code and then start promoting a piece of malware including features that he thinks his potential customers would want by generalizing a cybercriminal's needs, is today's "listening to the customer" win-win situation that they've reached already...
 
Tags: malware, malware author, malware authors, malware binaries, malware attacks, ftp, ftp user, collects, malware industry
 
 
 
 
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Banker Malware Targeting Brazilian Banks in the Wild

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2008-08-18 07:01:03 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware, and the malware coding for hire customer tailored services, certain malware authors still believe in the product concept, namely, they build it and wait for someone to come. In this underground proposition for a proprietary banker malware targeting primarily Brazillian bank, the author is relying on the localized value added to his...
 
Tags: banker malware, banker malware kit, kit, popular banker malware, malware, bank itau personnalite, bank itau, malware authors, russian malware authors
 
 
 
 
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A Localized Bankers Malware Campaign

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2008-03-25 14:59:06 by HASH0x8b6136c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Malware campaign that I exposed in November 2007, in this post I'll assess another targeted, but also localized to Portuguese campaign with a decent degree of cyber deception applied. It appears that the latest round has been spammed two days ago, but expanding their ecosystem reveals evidence of more bankers malware on behalf of the same...
 
Tags: malware, bankers malware campaign, malware malware, malware campaigns, malicious malware, banker malware, bankers malware, malware authors, campaign
 
 
 
 
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The United Nations Serving Malware

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2008-04-23 10:13:00 by HASH0x8b31c98 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware infected page, and with a reason since both the malicious URl and the injection are still active. According to WebSense This mass injection is remarkably similar to the attack we saw earlier this month. When a user browses to a compromised site, the injected JavaScript loads a file named 1.js which is ho sted on...
 
Tags: malware, attack, malware attack, anti-malware vendor, media malware gang, htm, nihaorr1, load nihaorr1, attack tactic
 
 
 
 
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New DIY Malware in the Wild

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2008-04-29 16:06:55 by HASH0x8b1f28c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware is getting pitched as one with low detection rate due to its proprietary nature , following the logic that based on the fact that few people will have it, it would somehow remain undetected for a longer period of time. The applied logic is however, excluding the possibility of used to recently purchased good as a bargain to obtain or...
 
Tags: diy malware, malware, diy malware droppers, do-it-yourself malware, novice malware coder, malware authors, source malware, malware loader, multi-feature malware crypter
 
 
 
 
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Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front

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2008-07-25 03:25:13 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware is your antivirus solution detecting? A million, ten million, even "worse", less than a million? Does it really matter? No, it doesn't. What's marketable can also be irrelevant if you are to consider that today's malware is no longer coded, but generated efficiently and obfuscated on the fly . Sophos's recent statistics It is...
 
Tags: malware samples, million malware samples, malware, samples, unique malware samples, hire malware bot, malware authors, count malware, malware variants
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware embedded sites who were cleaned before they could be analyzed, mainly popular sites who get crawled several times daily. However, Yahoo's and MSN's search engines, with MSN providing Archive.org type of historical crawling content, have been an invaluable resource in providing the actionable historical intelligence in the form of what...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites
 
 
 
 
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Yet Another Massive Embedded Malware Attack

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2008-02-27 11:42:39 by HASH0x8b05fe8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...malware serving domains - buytraffic.cn/in.cgi?11 is currently embedded at couple of hundred sites and forums across the web. And just like the many previous such examples, the process is automated to the very last stage. Repeated requests expose the entire domains portfolio, where once the live exploit is served with the help of a javascript...
 
Tags: attack, malware attack, malware, free malware cocktails, anti-malware vendor, media malware gang, massive, entire domains portfolio, domains