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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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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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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
 
 
 
 
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Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHA Broken

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2008-07-03 08:36:21 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...underground service that's selling registered accounts at Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and the most popular Russian email providers in the thousands. Once the inventory of registered accounts drops due to someone's purchase, it continues registering one to two email accounts per second Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHA broken by spammers Breaking...
 
Tags: captcha, hotmails captcha, captcha authentication, bogus accounts, accounts, text based captcha, accounts drops due, do-it-yourself captcha, yahoo
 
 
 
 
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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
...underground marketplace is something that's been happening for the past three years, and therefore making it sound like it's been happening as of yesterday, brings the discussion to the lowest possible level - right from the very beginning. Try the following malicious services on demand for instance, demostranting key business concepts such...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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5 Lessons on Public Disclosure From Elliot Spitzer

2008-03-12 17:26:54 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...Underground Security Resources Not underground like the Russian Business Network but not as well known as some people think. These Fight Cross Site Scripting in your .NET Apps Microsoft just released a free Visual Source Safe plugin to help identify XSS (Cross Site Scripting 5 Security Predictions for 2008 1. We will see the first...
 
Tags: public disclosure, disclosure, response, pretty quick response, cross site, fight cross site, time, law enforcement, incident response team