Archive | Malware


03 September 2010 | 7,839 views

Malware Hash Checking Tool – Online & Offline Support

This program intends to detect a malicious file in two ways; online and offline. It calculates the md5 hash of a specified file and searches it in its current hash set (offline) or on VirusTotal site (online) and shows the result. It has http proxy support and update (for hash set) feature. It’s a simple [...]

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15 July 2010 | 6,101 views

Sunbelt Software Bought By GFI For An Undisclosed Sum

Looks like this is the way business is heading, especially in the software sector. As led by the giants Microsoft, acquisition is the way to get new and innovative software without having to produce it yourself! Sunbelt Blog is one of the few we actually link to in the sidebar and also read regularly. They [...]

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09 July 2010 | 10,231 views

REMnux: A Linux Distribution For Reverse-Engineering Malware

REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu and is maintained by Lenny Zeltser. REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to emulate within an isolated laboratory environment when performing behavioral malware analysis. As part of this process, the analyst typically [...]

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08 July 2010 | 9,682 views

Regional Trojan Threat Targeting Online Banks

Well it was inevitable really, I’ve noticed in the last couple of years Phishing e-mails have started to use targeted lists especially for banking sites and the next up of course is trojans developed for specific regions. A security company Trusteer (who makes Rapport) has done some research on this matter which has pin-pointed certain [...]

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24 June 2010 | 13,571 views

Scotland Yard Arrests Teenages For Involvement In Largest English Language Cybercrime Forum

It seems both the US and UK governments have been cracking down pretty harshly on cybercrime operations over the past two years. A number of ‘underground’ forums and cybercrime operations have been shut down including those involving botnets, carding and phishing. One of the big stories earlier this year was the Former DarkMarket Admin Facing [...]

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22 June 2010 | 7,075 views

Australians Propose ‘No Anti-virus – No Internet Connection’ Policy

So after a year of research and debate, what did the Aussies come up with? A policy to disconnect people from the Internet if they get infected by a virus.. Rather naive isn’t it? Plus if your ISP cuts you off, how exactly are you supposed to resolve the problem without a connection to do [...]

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04 June 2010 | 5,251 views

FTC Cracks Down On Spyware Seller CyberSpy Software

Well this case has taken a while but the FTC won in the end and reached a settlement two years after halting the company from selling it’s “100 per cent undetectable” commercial keylogging application. It’s interesting to see court cases that venture into the grey area of ethics, I think the main problem stemmed from [...]

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25 May 2010 | 8,155 views

IBM Distributes Malware Laden USB Drives at AusCERT Security Conference

Another case of ‘accidental’ malware distribution, remember a while back when Vodafone Spain was Distributing Mariposa Malware, the latest is that IBM handed out malware laden USB drives at a security conference of all places. Well on the up-side at least everyone there would be security savvy so damage should be minimal. If it was [...]

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11 May 2010 | 7,434 views

iScanner – Detect & Remove Malicious Code/Web Pages Viruses From Your Linux/Unix Server

iScanner is free open source tool lets you detect and remove malicious codes and web pages viruses from your Linux/Unix server easily and automatically. This is a neat tool for those who have to do some clean up operation after a mass-exploitation or defacement on a shared web-host. This tool is programmed by iSecur1ty using [...]

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29 April 2010 | 6,646 views

Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Bot Network For Hire

Another botnet herder bites the dust, the latest news in the malware arena is about David Anthony Edwards from Texas who has admitted he and his accomplice had offered tailor made malware and DDoS attacks for rent. 22,000 zombies is a reasonable number of bots for a herder to control on their own, and assuming [...]

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