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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
In the very same way a cybercrime analyst is reverse engineering and sandboxing a particular piece of malware in order to get a better understanding of who's being it, and how successful the campaign is once access to the command and control interface is obtained, cybercriminals themselves are actively reverse engineering the most popular...
 
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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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Interesting points by F-Secure with two main issues covered, namely the lack of employment opportunities for skilled IT people who turn to cyber crime to make a living, and the emerging economies across the globe, whose citizens in their early stages of embracing new economic models will suffer from the inevitable unequal distribution of income...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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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
Following the previous summaries of June's and July's threatscape based on all the research published during the month, it's time to summarize August's threatscape August's threatscape was dominated by a huge increase of rogue security software domains made possible due to the easily obtainable templates for the sites, several malware campaigns...
 
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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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
Modified versions of popular open source crimeware kits rarely make the headlines due to the fact that anyone can hijack a crimeware kit's brand, build and innovate using its foundations , and claim it's a new version released by the original authors . That's of course in between the tiny time frame until he's exposed as the fake author of Zeus...
 
Tags: malware, web based malware, botnet, female botnet masters, popular crimeware kits, zeus, crimeware kits, authors, original authors
 
 
 
 
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The Moo Security through Sacredness

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2007-08-29 04:30:13 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
I am currently in India, attending my dad's health concern. I stay awake at wee hours, still recovering from the jetlag. Cow is considered a sacred animal in India for multitude of reasons 1. Cow gives milk which is a main source of protien in many parts of India 2. Diluted cow's milk is given to newly born baby in cases where mom is not...
 
Tags: cow, cow roams, security function, dried dung cake, secure animal, dung, animal, india, secure
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Keywords for gaining attention from a marketing perspective for last week - embedded malware, IFRAMEs, stolen FTP accounts, Fortune 500 companies, Russia. Nothing's wrong with that unless of course you're interested in the whole story and the big picture, which wouldn't be excluding the possibility for having a Fortune 500 company's servers...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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HACKED BY THE RBN!

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2008-04-01 15:52:09 by HASH0x8b24a94 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
The RBN 0wnZ 7th1$ Bl0g! April 1st, 2008, St.Petersburg, Russia. The Russian Business Network, an internationally renowned cyber crime powerhouse is proud to present its very latest malware cocktail by embedding live exploit URLs within one of the top ten blogs to be malware embedded due to their overall negative attitude regarding the RBN's...
 
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Malware still the biggest threat

2008-03-14 06:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
It's reckoned that two million new strains of malware, or five every two minutes, will emerge onto the Internet this year. That doesn't include the 15 to 20 new Trojans released every hour. These are the figures reported by Kaspersky in an article in the latest edition of Information Week . While the numbers are shockingly high, they are not in...
 
Tags: malware, network, rbn network, network ips, rbn, attack specific networks, information week article, networks, article
 
 
 
 
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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
Disintermediating the intermediaries in the cybercrime ecosystem, ultimately results in more profitable operations. Controversial to the concept of outsourcing, some 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...
 
Tags: 76service, service, malware, malware kit, cybercrime, malware botnet, botnet, mysterious 76service server, web service