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Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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2007-12-09 22:34:23 by HASH0x89e9090 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Underground Economy on the Chinese Web , and this is how they assessed the high activity at the underground related forums Unlike the US or EU blackhats communities, Chinese blackhats are typically not familiar with IRC (In-ternet Relay Chat). They typically use bulletin board systems on the Web or IM software like QQ tocommunicate with each...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese underground, underground, underground economy, chinese web, chinese red hackers, china, china eagle union, underground black market
 
 
 
 
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Neosploit Team Leaving the IT Underground

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2008-07-29 16:09:25 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...underground, and their over-optimistic assumption that high-profit margins can compensate the lack of long-term growth strategy, which in respect to web malware exploitation kits has do with the benefits coming from converging with traffic management tools. Lets discuss some key points The end of Neosploit malware kit , doesn't mean the end...
 
Tags: neosploit, neosploit malware kit, kit, icepack exploitation kit, malware, malware kits, web malware kits, commodity malware kit, source malware
 
 
 
 
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Interview with Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios, Spies in the Phishing Underground

2008-01-28 09:30:21 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Both Nitesh and Billy are well-known security researchers that have recently managed to infiltrate the phishing underground. What started as a simple examination of phishing sites, turned into an extr
 
Tags: well-known security researchers, simple examination, billy, nitesh, underground, sites, recently, extr
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...underground market" and centralized power to increase the supply or decrease it to boost prices for the stolen credit card details, also indicating the existence of underground cartels putting everyone in a "price taker" position The basics of demand and supply for anything underground will always apply unless of course, The more they want,...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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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
...underground show-off Some general info on the 76service Subscribers could log in with their assigned user name and password any time during the 30-day project. Theyd be met with a screen that told them which of their bots was currently active, and a side bar of management options. For example, they could pull down the latest dropsdata...
 
Tags: 76service, service, malware, malware kit, cybercrime, malware botnet, botnet, mysterious 76service server, web service
 
 
 
 
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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
...underground proposition for a proprietary banker malware targeting primarily Brazillian bank, the author is relying on the localized value added to his malware forgetting a simply fact - that the most popular banker malware is generalizing E-banking transactions in such a way that it's successfully able to hijack the sessions of banks it...
 
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 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
...Underground ? Are its participants copycats who just localize successful malware kits , and port open source malware to web applications in between adding more features within ? For the past several years, and more recently with the anti CNN attacking campaigns courtesy of Chinese hacktivists and the average Internet users, the Chinese IT...
 
Tags: malware, chinese, china diy malware, chinese underground, source malware, diy malware kit, chinese hacktivists, tools, dos tools
 
 
 
 
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The Perfect Storm

2008-07-17 07:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...underground hacker community and their findings are rather interesting. A bit scary too There is an entire community of totally different players that all work together to get from the point where a nerdy kid finds a vulnerability to where a hacker uses that to get into a PC, steal personal information and credit card details, sell them or...
 
Tags: information, information security, personal information, credit card details, credit card, company information, credit card theft, wide-scale information theft, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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China's CERT Annual Security Report - 2007

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2008-04-21 02:34:07 by HASH0x8b2001c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Underground black mature industrial chain for the production and the large number of Trojans wide dissemination provides a very convenient conditions, Trojan horses on the Internet led to the proliferation of a lot of personal information and the privacy of data theft, to the personal reputation and cause serious economic losses; In addition,...
 
Tags: china, internet infrastructure, chinese internet infrastructure, chinese, zombie network flow, zombie network, interestingly chinese, infrastructure, chinese underground economy